Places annaebaxter1996 Wants to Go

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

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

A medieval Italian village is fighting depopulation with this vibrant annual street art festival.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.

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

Ever loyal to Roma, the small village of Albe in the Abruzzo region carried on until an earthquake did it in.

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

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

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

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.