Places jodypea25 Wants to Go

Inscriptions found in the Majella mountains reveal stories of resistance and rebellion after the unification of Italy.

One of the earliest relics of Italian art is this ornately equipped stone soldier.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

A small town lost in the mountains of southern Italy hosts the childhood home of one of the most famous saints of the 20th century.

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.

A medieval Italian village is fighting depopulation with this vibrant annual street art festival.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.