Places irma Wants to Go

The only visible remains of this ancient Greek underground temple is its roof protruding from the earth.

This medieval hilltop village was abandoned at the end of the 19th century, after existing for more than 500 years.

This ancient city was home to one of the greatest schools of Greek philosophy.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

The San Marino-Rimini railroad was short-lived but this tunnel once provided shelter for hundreds of refugees during World War II.

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

Before the more famous Royal Palace of Caserta, the king of Naples first commissioned this overlooked residence.

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

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

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

A rococo room covered entirely in porcelain originally constructed for another royal residence.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

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

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, greets pedestrians between these narrow city streets.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

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

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

This medieval city gate is now a blend of the past and the modern world.

A special area of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples is located inside a metro station.

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.