Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

Take a giant yellow bird cage to the top of Elba's highest mountain.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

These pools have been abandoned for over 20 years.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

A beautifully well-preserved ancient Roman villa.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

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

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.