Places anfreba Wants to Go

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

Three members of Syria's ruling family entombed in quiet mountain town.

What is left of the pillar of Saint Simeon, the voluntary martyr who climbed the column to give his sermons, remaining perched there for thirty-seven years.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

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

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.