Places pleiades Wants to Go

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

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

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

A stunning waterfall in the mountains of Romania.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

A limestone grotto where daylight filters in from below and turns the water a beautiful turquoise. Also home to a small underwater nativity scene.

Exchange a book at the entrance of this medieval Lovere alley.

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

This small village claims to be independent from Italy because it was left out when the nation was unified.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

For more than a century, this hole-in-the-wall near Termini Station has been serving what some say is the greatest porchetta sandwich.

Crispy, cheesy rice balls—the Roman answer to arancini—take center stage here.

Once the home of a renowned slaughterhouse, formerly working-class Testaccio is still the place to go for Roman offal dishes.

A series of waterfalls create the illusion of perpetual rainfall in this hidden gorge.