Places kosmostasis Wants to Go

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

The former atelier of Mario Cassisa is a treasure trove of paintings, sculptures, and artist books.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

This hidden alley near the location of Rome's first theater was the site of a curious miracle.

This room of wonder is full of relics, from knights in armor to rare works of art.

The charred, dead skeleton of an oak tree is said to have consoled a dying 16th-century Italian poet.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

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

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

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

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

Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

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