Places Planetpinto Wants to Go

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

A special area of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples is located inside a metro station.

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

A rococo room covered entirely in porcelain originally constructed for another royal residence.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, greets pedestrians between these narrow city streets.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

One of the world's oldest continually operating bookstores.

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

Take a walk through the history of strength sports—from the early Olympic Games to modern day.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

The world's only known button museum.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.