Places Jan Claus Di Blasio Wants to Go

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

A wunderkammer of curious objects and intriguing art nestled within a hub of ancient Roman sites.

The people of Padua pledged to construct this church if the city was spared from destruction during World War I.

The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

Two planes stand abandoned after the closure of an aircraft-themed restaurant.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

The construction of a new church near Venosa was started in the 11th century, but never finished.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

Known as "The People's Park," this verdant oasis is home to elephants and villagers alike.

Welded sphere dropped from space.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.