Places mpudvar Wants to Go

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

The middle finger of modernity.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Berlin's old airport.

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.