Places monicaanndelgado Wants to Go

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

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