Places taras Wants to Go

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

Artist's eccentric property excessively decorated with found objects and work of his own.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

Built on a medieval synagogue, this church has a burial crypt, tunnel system, and Jewish ritual bath hiding deep underneath.

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

These ruins of a Phoenician sanctuary in Sicily have a dark history.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.