Places Mecca Wants to Go

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

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

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.