Places moonlightpearls Wants to Go

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.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

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

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

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

Abandoned medieval hill town.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.