Places tessadruijff Wants to Go

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A funerary monument for two brothers who served in the Roman cavalry.

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This caldera was once associated with the Etruscan god of the underworld.

This enormous sinkhole hides a secret world created from divine wrath.

Get buzzed beholding one of the world's largest coffee-machine collections, then step into the café for a specially brewed cup.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."