Places revans Wants to Go

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

In the center of Wrocław's old meat market stands a somber tribute to the city's livestock.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

An underground city of salt.

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.