Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

Once one of the largest sites of silver deposits in Italy.

The crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.

These unique "earth pyramid" clay columns can be found in ravines around the village of Tirolo.

This small hermitage on Mount Scalambra was built near what some believe is the miraculous imprint of Saint Benedict's hand.

Greenery covers the face of a gently-dripping waterfall deep in the mountains of central Sardinia.

This bronze boy sits on one of Capri's rocky cliffs, waving at the passing boats.

Leonardo da Vinci was one of many to find inspiration in this unique, rocky landscape in Tuscany.

According to legend, this small island was home to one of the sirens met by Ulysses in the Odyssey.

This abandoned semaphore station hearkens back to the days of the optical telegraph.

This tiny chapel atop a sea stack is dedicated to the patron saint of Ponza, Saint Silverius.

This hermitage spanning an Italian river gorge draws pilgrims hoping to heal ailments like arthritis and migraines.

This stately palace, first built in the 16th century, was converted into a prison in 1830.

Packed with geological formations, an ancient river, and taxidermied seals, this overlooked coastal cave system is worth a spelunk.

In Majella National Park, these stone dwellings harken back to the region's pastoral history.