Places miramarco Wants to Go

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

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

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

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

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