Places gabbysimms Wants to Go

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

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

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

The middle finger of modernity.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

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

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

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

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.