Places ElSilencio Wants to Go

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

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

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

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

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

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