Places johnw404 Wants to Go

This display showcases the culinary equivalent of steel-toe boots during World War I.

Once the site of medieval pilgrimage for its healing powers, this well was lost and later rediscovered.

The old church, buried by the 1784 Mount Vesuvius eruption, is a remarkably well-preserved place where people now pray for the souls of the dead.

This Gothic revival structure has been a family home, a military base, a gymnastics center, and is now owned by one of the largest auction houses in Italy.

Depending on how it is measured, this lighthouse can claim to be the tallest in Europe and the tallest conventional lighthouse in the world.

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

Sip a Negroni Sbagliato in the bar that invented it.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.

A larger-than-life house of cards stands outside the house of a former fashion designer.

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

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

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

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

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