Places lefrea Wants to Go

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

This one-of-a-kind archeological site is home to strange prehistoric ruins, the original use of which is still a mystery.

The entire known universe of the ancient Etruscans is held inside this bronze model of a sheep’s liver.

A wood-and-steel sculpture garden featuring an artful interplay of nature and machinery.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.

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

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

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

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

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

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.