Places zdficken Wants to Go

In this nearly 1,000-year-old monastery, monks painstakingly restore old books.

According to the legend, this structure was built in a single night with the help of the devil.

Only three columns survive from this ancient temple in the town of Cori.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

One of the four sanctuaries of Rieti's Holy Valley was the site of the first living nativity scene.

The disputed geographic center, or "navel," of Italy.

The ruins of this Roman temple dominate the small city in southern Lazio.

This seventh-century fortification marked the western border of the Lombard duchy of Spoleto.

The tallest structure in Italy is a remote radio transmitter in Sicily.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

A striped 12th-century basilica sits in the countryside of Sardinia.

In this medieval church, a centuries-old stuffed crocodile hangs from the ceiling.

During World War II, the Shroud of Turin was secreted to this remote southern Italian complex.

One of the oldest still-working clocks in the world sits on an ancient tower.

Constructed during the 1960s, this bridge is still the highest in Italy.

A mountain cave is the site of archaeological findings and Paleolithic rock art.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

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

This scenic fortress dates back at least 2,400 years to the time of Magna Graecia.

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

A colossal aqueduct from the second century B.C., deeply hidden in a gorge on the outskirts of Rome.

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

Europe's simulation of the Martian surface uses soil from Mount Vesuvius.