Places Gravefog Wants to Go

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

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

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

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

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

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

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

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

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

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

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

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

Venice's island of the dead.