Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

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

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.