Places webeirish Wants to Go

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

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.

A piece of stonework relief commemorates the site where the Devil's rage, and odd apparel, destroyed a house.

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

A mural recalls a fictional woman who once lived at 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

This metal monument marking the middle of Belgium represents three regions coming together to form one country.

This huge limestone slab is considered the largest paving stone in Belgium and a relic of the earliest modern paving in Brussels.

A curious stone in a public square commemorates the victims of witch-burning.