Places LidiaVT Wants to Go

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

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

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

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

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

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

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

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

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

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.