Places lilliannfjohnston Wants to Go

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

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

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

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

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.