Places megankass Wants to Go

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

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

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.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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

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