Places Kelsey Kennedy Wants to Go

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

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

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

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

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

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.

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

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

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.