Places leighadlr Wants to Go

A darkly erotic open-air statuary in Catalonia.

Medieval village and microminiature museum.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

A rather vulgar example of the transition from Latin to the Italian vernacular.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.