Places anfreba Wants to Go

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The middle finger of modernity.

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

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

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

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.