Places quodnunquam Wants to Go

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

This little museum is packed with information about the region's past and present biodiversity.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

At the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human habitation.

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

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Venice's island of the dead.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

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

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

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

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.