Places atraveller Wants to Go

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The oldest civic library in Italy can trace its foundation back to 1619.

This 2,000-year-old Doric bridge is still open to pedestrian traffic to this day.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

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

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

A unique combination of a lighthouse and a poignant memorial to the fallen of the two world wars.

This uniquely designed bridge served as the city gate for Comacchio.

Numerous stone coffins from different centuries, lined up in a sixth century basilica.

One of the earliest depictions of an Arthurian scene that is shrouded in mystery.

A medieval, mosaic-lined baptistry built by a heretical Christian sect.

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

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

A design by master architect Alvar Aalto in a small village in the Apennines near Bologna.

South of Bologna, a limestone grotto with a protruding waterfall and a floor full of cave pearls.

Everyday, fans from across the globe visit the statue of one of the greatest Formula One drivers in history.

An intact, still operating pharmacy from the 18th-century filled with numerous artifacts and paintings.

A great white whale sculpture now sits in the location where the remains of a prehistoric cetacean were found.

Historic harpsichords, clavichords, organs, pianos, and more inside a deconsecrated church.

Half of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's ashes were buried in Armenia.