Places alessissimo Wants to Go

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

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

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

For hundreds of years, this huge figure has been blessing visitors before they explore his body.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

This deceiving white sand beach gets its brilliant hue from the chemical discharge of a nearby factory.

When a massive landslide hit one of the world's tallest dams it created a tragic environmental disaster.

The Bourbon royal family had this unique octagonal hunting "cottage" built on a tiny islet in Lake Fusaro.

Once an ancient Roman bath, now a hotbed of geothermal energy and a hub for energetic innovations.

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

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.