Places kattrewerts Wants to Go

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

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

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

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

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

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

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

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

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

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The middle finger of modernity.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

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