Places annaebaxter1996 Wants to Go

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

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

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...

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

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

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Ernest Hemingway was the first to sign this colorful wall covered in thousands of celebrity signatures.

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

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

A slingshot from this delightful collection is awarded each year to someone who has "pulled metaphorical slings in favor of the weak and marginalized."

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.