Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The effect of this ancient form of image projection situated atop an 11th century Moorish palace is thrilling.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

An optical Illusion once believed to be an electrical phenomenon.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

Mosaics created from 11 million cigar bands.

Lived-in building, bedecked with an astonishing array of mirror mosaics.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.