Places Ouatslaw Wants to Go

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

An iron dragon with a long neck covered in feathery scales perched above one of Venice's most popular squares.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

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

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

This delicious Bosnian barbecue restaurant celebrates the diverse cuisine of Slovenia.

Workers have collected salt here in a process virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages.

This Croatian computer club features such gaming relics as the infamous Virtual Boy and an 8-bit Pacman machine.

This military tunnel dates back to World War II and provides visitors with a little wartime adrenaline.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

One of the tallest lighthouses in the world also serves as a monument to the fallen of World War I.

The Adriatic's most famous wind can be reliably experienced in the city's Marina.

This historic floating crane became an unlikely symbol of the port of Trieste.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

South of Bologna, a limestone grotto with a protruding waterfall and a floor full of cave pearls.

A great white whale sculpture now sits in the location where the remains of a prehistoric cetacean were found.

A masterpiece of modern architecture that caused quite a stir in Paris, recreated in Bologna half a century later.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

A memorial to the deadliest terror attack during an unsettled period of Italy’s recent history.

A papal fortress built to assert Roman control over the independent city of Bologna

Historic harpsichords, clavichords, organs, pianos, and more inside a deconsecrated church.

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.

The remains of an ancient Roman city are hidden underneath Bologna's beautiful public library.