Places ibewretiree Wants to Go

An ancient theatre in the "little Rome of the Alps."

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

The ruins of this once gorgeous medieval church are still standing, despite the region's constant flooding.

A 2,000-year-old engineering wonder hides beneath an Italian town.

This iconic rock hermitage was once the abode of a future pope.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

A devastating landslide accidentally created this tourist hotspot.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The eerie ruins of this feudal fortress witnessed the execution of 60 conspirators in 1387.

Famous landmarks and structures from across Italy fill this miniature park.

A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.

The 1,000-year-old abbey is the birthplace of modern musical notation.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

When occupying Nazi troops detonated a mine below, medieval frescoes were revealed in this small cliff-side hermitage.

Unscathed for almost 2,000 years, the best preserved Roman triumphal arch is in a small southern Italian city.

Church holding the preserved body of a levitating saint.

This museum located in Fondi is also said to be the most haunted building in town.

A monument to the migrants who cross the dangerous waters between North Africa and a tiny Italian island.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.