Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

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

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

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

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

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.