Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

Church holding the preserved body of a levitating saint.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

An abandoned village that resides along the mountains of the Aosta Valley.

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

An abandoned monastery sits on a far-off island in the Adriatic Sea.

A medieval house with mysterious alchemical inscriptions on its facade

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

This unusually shaped fortress houses a blend of centuries-old frescoes and modern art.

With its mine closed, this old village is starting to resemble a ghost town.

A striped 12th-century basilica sits in the countryside of Sardinia.

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

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

The remains of this medieval Roman road and lookout towers dot the rugged coastline of southern Lazio.

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.

A lonesome Moai stands in a small Italian town some 9,000 miles away from its Easter Island brethren.

This network of roads is one of the most unique Etruscan creations ever discovered.

A long-buried ancient ruin unearthed right in the middle of the city.

This old medieval prison tower has been a site of astronomical research for more than 250 years.

A massive bridge forms part of an aqueduct that was deemed an architectural wonder of its time.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

This small but lovely sinkhole lake is the last remnant of a great prehistoric water basin.

This Italian pyramid is said to hold the mingled remains of the dead from both sides of the Battle of Novara.

A 2,000-year-old engineering wonder hides beneath an Italian town.