Places benjaminfreyart Wants to Go

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

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

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

A sudden, striking cluster of hills south of Padua has been attracting visitors for centuries.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

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

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

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

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.