Places chrissyml Wants to Go

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

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

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

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

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

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

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.