Places rickssss Wants to Go

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

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

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

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

A unique Tuscan hideaway acts as an art mecca as well as a hotel.

First founded in 1472, this is the oldest bank in the world. Its history may explain why we call financial institutions "banks."

The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

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

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

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

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

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