Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

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

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

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

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

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

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

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

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

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