Places ElSilencio Wants to Go

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.