Places jordank Wants to Go

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

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

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.