Places freddoloso Wants to Go

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

This whimsical fountain depicts a winged siren shooting water out of her nipples into the fires of Mount Vesuvius.

Row through this enchanted narrow chasm whose stones are said to resemble dragon scales.

The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

This 19th-century fountain features sculptures of little gnomes that help with chores.

These once housed the families who decided in 1665 to quarantine themselves to save their neighbours.

The only place in the world where vehicles for an obsolete form of transportation are still built.

This is the world's only floating national park, and the last natural home of the majestic sangai deer.

One of the Hakka "ghost villages" of Plover Cove famed for its haunted locked compass legend.

An intersection between architecture, industrial construction, machine, and scientific instrument.

Legendary pedestrian bridge in the centre of Romanian city Sibiu.

This cave complex might provide a link between the Neolithic and the Classical Greek period.

Glass-fronted lifts give riders panoramic views of the skyline and the sensation of floating above Hong Kong.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

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

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

For decades, vendors have sold clothes once worn by American soldiers who stormed Italy in the 1940s.

The first Italian factory to produce locomotives is now a marvelous museum.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

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

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.