Places aliceclifford03 Wants to Go

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

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

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Florence’s archaeological museum displays an ordinary stool that once shattered one of its most prized artifacts.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

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

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Where the rules of that most quintessentially English game were first devised by an eccentric inventor.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

This 11th-century Cistercian abbey was once seized by Henry VIII.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

The ruins of a 19th-century corn mill are haunted by a malevolent cave-dwelling spirit.

Almost nothing but earthworks remain of this long-lost castle.

This historic castle was already in ruins by the 13th century.

A deserted medieval village where bodies were once mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead.

Remarkable medieval wall paintings decorate this 12th-century, dog-friendly church.