Places Stefanie Caloia Wants to Go

This departure gate in Austin's airport sends travelers to over 120 imaginary destinations.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

This historic line is a remnant of an ambitious and unconventional project that today provides panoramic views of the Ligurian mountains.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

Perched above a grotto, this tribute to Mother Nature looks out into the ocean.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

On the walking path from Monterosso to Vernazza, a small shrine dedicated to feline friends.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Saint Borromeo often prayed in this austere crypt during the 16th century.

See what remains of a once grand ancient Roman circus.

This camera store in Milan holds one of Europe’s largest collections of luxury-antique cameras.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A bronze sculpture dedicated to a historic labor dispute in the U.S. automotive industry.

Michigan's first reclaimed art sculpture lounges along the Upper Peninsula's Manistique River.

Ernest Hemingway used to frequent this general store, which appears in several of his short stories.

This marker tells the story of a town’s toxic past.