Places stonoceno Wants to Go

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

A town saturated in Italian rationalist architecture was once marshland drained by Mussolini.

An 11th-century mountaintop fortress that played a crucial role in Italy's papal wars is now a vacation rental.

Some people believe that this makeshift space monitoring station received transmissions from clandestine cosmonauts.

Italy's "New Mountain" rose from the ground in a volcanic eruption in 1538.

The world's largest "Christmas tree" is illuminated by hundreds of lights stretching 2,000 feet up the slope of Mount Ingino.

Production site for handmade clay bricks.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

This German monument honors the so-called "Prince of Mathematicians."

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

Remains of a huge radio tower.

Most powerful transmitter in Germany only broadcasts in the French language.

The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

A distinctive former power plant turned university lecture hall looks like it could make you breakfast.

World's only telecommunication tower with a wooden pinnacle.

At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

The metal-free wooden towers of Brück.

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.

Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.