Places mfoster42 Wants to Go

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

A small token of gratitude from freezing cold journalists who were given a warm haven while covering JFK's inauguration.

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

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Abandoned medieval hill town.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

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

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

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

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