Places ashaclarein Wants to Go

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

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

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

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

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

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This pink watchtower served as the seat of the Greek government after independence from the Turks.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.