Places stonoceno Wants to Go

One of the largest burial mounds in the Netherlands and Belgium.

An ingenious Dutch land art project uses grass ridges to cut airport noise pollution in half.

A beautiful chapel on the hills of the Oltrepò Pavese claims to house the tomb of King Edward II of England.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This artistic temple brings together multiple architecture styles, but is only an example of one.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

A slingshot from this delightful collection is awarded each year to someone who has "pulled metaphorical slings in favor of the weak and marginalized."

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

One of the earliest relics of Italian art is this ornately equipped stone soldier.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

A collection of decorative eggs to admire in the off-season.

One of the only spherical 19th century gas containers left today.

For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.