Places jakechouston Wants to Go

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.

An abandoned building that once tightened a power line that stretched across Messina Strait.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

A town saturated in Italian rationalist architecture was once marshland drained by Mussolini.

The now-abandoned Fascist summer colony served a dark purpose during World War II.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

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

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.