Places Andrea IX Wants to Go

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

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

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

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

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

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

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

Venice's island of the dead.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.