Places Piiikaa Wants to Go

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.