Places webeirish Wants to Go

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

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

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

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

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

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

An unexpected ghost village lurks on the southeast coast of Tenerife.

A space-grade telescope mirror lies discarded in the shrubs.

A large collection of solar and night-time telescopes dot a small area on the Teide mountain range.

The ruins of the first mountaintop observatory are just a hike away.

This unique rock formation is quite the local celebrity, although one day it may come crashing down.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.