Places loremipsum Wants to Go

This sinister Baroque entryway could lead you to a terrible fate.

Built as a defensive structure, this medieval walkway road offers a unique view of the village of Brisighella.

Just one of the Italian corridors vying for the title of the country's narrowest.

A fossil of a 30 million-year-old fish is unexpectedly hidden thousands of feet above sea level.

One of the oldest still-working clocks in the world sits on an ancient tower.

Richard Luke Concanen never set foot on American soil.

Two of the few remaining life-sized Greek bronzes were submerged in the sea for over 2,000 years.

A large statue of Pope Gregory XIII in Bologna was disguised as Saint Petronius to avoid destruction.

A hidden bas-relief of a hare on a church main portal that brings good luck to the ones who find it.

This lake was sacred to the Sabine people who constructed a temple here on a floating island.

This crystal clear water basin feeds the Lao river and powers a hydroelectric power plant.

One of the tallest bell towers in Italy plays a particular melody at just two times each day.

This incredible second-century sculpture depicts a trio of gods worshipped by the ancient Romans.

On the walking path from Monterosso to Vernazza, a small shrine dedicated to feline friends.

Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.

The walls of this tiny Italian church are entirely covered with frescoes.

This weird, elephant-shaped rock also hosts two ancient tombs.

Five painted skeletons are hiding behind a church in this tiny village in the Italian Alps.

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

Unscathed for almost 2,000 years, the best preserved Roman triumphal arch is in a small southern Italian city.

In medieval times this small stone seat was used as a bizarre way to punish insolvent debtors.

A trail of footprints discovered after a landslide was left not by the Devil, as originally believed, but by an early human ancestor.

The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

A monument to the migrants who cross the dangerous waters between North Africa and a tiny Italian island.