Places Kap980 Wants to Go

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The last Americana on Route 66.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

For hundreds of years, this huge figure has been blessing visitors before they explore his body.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.