Places amytitelbaum Wants to Go

Fried artichokes and other Roman–Jewish classics are executed with care at this no-frills cafeteria.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

Hidden within this iconic mountain are a set of World War II bunkers once used by German forces.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

This statue in Civitavecchia recreates a famous photograph from the end of World War II in massive scale.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

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

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

The middle finger of modernity.

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

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.