Places pvilla Wants to Go

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

A plaque in Madrid’s West Park marks the launch of a queer icon’s unlikely media career.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The middle finger of modernity.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

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

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

This eclectic architectural gem played witness to Zurich’s colonial past.

This charming fountain honors Felix Salten, the creator of the iconic storybook deer.

Long tunnels run under the ancient chariot racing circuit to the tower.

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”