Places Loec Wants to Go

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

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

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.