Places C L Raven Wants to Go

Turtles swim in a pond surrounding a classical temple in this lush park in Vicenza.

One of the tallest bell towers in Italy plays a particular melody at just two times each day.

A fairy-tale-like forest that was sacred to Jupiter and Saint Anthony.

This incredible second-century sculpture depicts a trio of gods worshipped by the ancient Romans.

Before the more famous Royal Palace of Caserta, the king of Naples first commissioned this overlooked residence.

This building was designed to celebrate Italy's victory in World War I.

This weird, elephant-shaped rock also hosts two ancient tombs.

The ruins of this medieval castle now stand as a monument against all wars.

This archaeological site built into a tuff outcrop is filled with rock dwellings, the ruins of a medieval castle, and a necropolis.

These ruins of a Phoenician sanctuary in Sicily have a dark history.

Meet the oldest inhabitants of this Italian hamlet, a series of oddly preserved mummies.

A cone-shaped top and cylindrical body set this 900-year-old structure apart from other Italian bell towers.

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

A crumbling watchtower and a lighthouse overlooks the site believed to be the Sirens' cliff in the "Odyssey."

Five painted skeletons are hiding behind a church in this tiny village in the Italian Alps.

You can only access this hermitage by crawling under a ledge suspended above an overhang.

When occupying Nazi troops detonated a mine below, medieval frescoes were revealed in this small cliff-side hermitage.

A town saturated in Italian rationalist architecture was once marshland drained by Mussolini.

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

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

This castle was once the home of one of the most powerful women of the Renaissance.

The eerie ruins of this feudal fortress witnessed the execution of 60 conspirators in 1387.

This long-abandoned village sits across a narrow gorge from a still-inhabited settlement that was once its twin.

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