Places Hheeaatthh Wants to Go

An Italian hillside ghost town.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

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

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

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

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

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Italy's third-largest Roman arena gives a peek into the underground operations beneath the ancient spectacles.

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

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

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.