Places Planetpinto Wants to Go

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.