Places jt168 Wants to Go

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

The middle finger of modernity.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

On the walking path from Monterosso to Vernazza, a small shrine dedicated to feline friends.

The memory of the ancient unit of measurement of local builders.

A completely underground tour following the path of the most precious element: water.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

For more than a century, this hole-in-the-wall near Termini Station has been serving what some say is the greatest porchetta sandwich.

Crispy, cheesy rice balls—the Roman answer to arancini—take center stage here.

Legend has it that this bronze orb, which sat atop an ancient Egyptian obelisk, once held the ashes of Julius Caesar.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

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

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.