Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

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

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

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

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

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

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.