Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

These unique stepping stones hug a river's edge to take hikers on a journey through a limestone gorge.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.