Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.

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

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

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

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

The eccentric midcentury home of a suspected mafia gun-runner.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.