Places NicholasManila Wants to Go

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

Roman-era ships unearthed...

A former milk-delivery driver and his wife turn their home into a glimmering mosaic.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

French commune at the heart of conspiracies.

The surviving remnants of a destroyed medieval church now stand in a public park.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

A winery built on the site of a Gallo-Roman estate uses historical tools to recreate ancient vintages.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.