Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

A collection of 4,000 thimbles that's more versatile than one might imagine.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Church organ in the Philippines constructed out of bamboo.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Visit the WWII bunker where the British won the battle for the skies.

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

The ruins of this old church are slowing sinking into the sand.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

This Sumatran root bridge took almost 30 years to knit itself together.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.