Places Lillive Wants to Go

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

Featuring the last fully walkable parapet walkway in Europe.

In this nearly 1,000-year-old monastery, monks painstakingly restore old books.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

A memorial to the Vicentine who survived and documented Magellan's circumnavigation of the world.

One of the tallest bell towers in Italy plays a particular melody at just two times each day.

Turtles swim in a pond surrounding a classical temple in this lush park in Vicenza.

The former home and studio of Belgian artist Antoine Wiertz is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A bronze statue of the fictional character nicknamed "Mrs. Hat" from a beloved Belgian comedy.

A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

A piece of stonework relief commemorates the site where the Devil's rage, and odd apparel, destroyed a house.

You can spot this teeny tiny stained-glass window from the Bonifacius bridge.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

Formerly a munitions depot and World War II POW camp, now a nature reserve.

This surprising work of art reminds us that La Louvière was once home to one of Europe’s most famous stoneware factories.

This statue of the Virgin and Child is said to have miraculously changed its position during the 1692 earthquake.