Milan, Italy
Palazzo Berri-Meregalli
This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Milan, Italy
This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.
Consonno, Italy
This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.
Rome, Italy
Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.
San Fruttuoso, Italy
A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.
Canale Monterano, Italy
The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.
Naples, Italy
The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.
Siena, Italy
A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
Sperlonga, Italy
The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.
Florence, Italy
Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.
Florence, Italy
Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.
Riomaggiore, Italy
A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.
Collodi, Italy
Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Syracuse, Italy
Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.
Florence, Italy
An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.
Rome, Italy
A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.
Marmore, Italy
Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.
Rome, Italy
In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.
Rome, Italy
The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.
Venice, Italy
The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.
Cefalù, Italy
Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."
Calcata Vecchia, Italy
Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.
Stra, Italy
A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.
Rome, Italy
Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.