Places jakechouston Wants to Go

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

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

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

The ghostly remains of a gunpowder mill lost in 70 hectares of thick woods.

High in the Italian Alps, a lonely chapel with a striking view of the Matterhorn.

The intricate geometry inside this Baroque-style dome was designed to create "terror of the human soul."

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.

Inside this park resides a giant clock tower and ancient sundial that overlook the town below.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Hike along an abandoned railway up to a popular pilgrimage site.

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

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

A strange-looking 18th-century tower sits on a tiny islet just off Livorno.

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

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.