Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.