Places chrissyml Wants to Go

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

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