Places ayshazackria Wants to Go

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

Harlequin costumes, signed scripts, and armor-wearing puppets.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

Things seem to roll, flow and run uphill on this short patch of road near Ariccia, Italy.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.