Places chiara98basso Wants to Go

This medieval mountain town is also known as the "Village of Streams."

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

A British Commonwealth cemetery in the heart of Milan, with 421 allied soldiers died during World War II.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

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

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Tiny museum with unusual specimens.