Places nejuum Wants to Go

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

For centuries, this town's hot springs have been embraced by rich and poor—and even by Popes.

A massive line that stretches across the floor of Bologna’s largest church was created by a 17th-century scientist to measure the movements of the Sun.

Inside features a display of how artistic crucifixes transformed throughout the centuries.

Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.

In medieval times this small stone seat was used as a bizarre way to punish insolvent debtors.

These unique "earth pyramid" clay columns can be found in ravines around the village of Tirolo.

A trail of footprints discovered after a landslide was left not by the Devil, as originally believed, but by an early human ancestor.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

The origins of a large, medieval castle are shrouded in mystery, but now it's a delightful garden.

The oldest-known example of a historic architectural style recognized by UNESCO.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

This trail was once used to smuggle cigarettes, sugar, and other black market goods between Italy and Switzerland.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.