Places ElSilencio Wants to Go

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

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

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Venice's island of the dead.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

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

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

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

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

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

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

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

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

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."