Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

This ancient city was home to one of the greatest schools of Greek philosophy.

The ruins of a rural church and a statue of Archangel Gabriel are tucked away in Majella National Park.

This small hermitage is located along an ancient route that connected the Tiber and Rieti valleys.

A prehistoric route that has claimed many victims is now closed to traffic.

This iconic rock hermitage was once the abode of a future pope.

High in the Italian Alps, a lonely chapel with a striking view of the Matterhorn.

The ruins of this temple were later chosen by Pope Celestine V to found an abbey and a hermitage.

The ruins of a thousand-year-old hermitage are tucked away deep in the sloping forests of Albano Lake.

This megalithic tomb was crafted by a mysterious civilization that settled the island of Pantelleria.

Constructed during the 1960s, this bridge is still the highest in Italy.

An impressive bridge over a ravine also served as an aqueduct.

A strange-looking 18th-century tower sits on a tiny islet just off Livorno.

Once the hunting reserve of a noble family, this is one of the few remnants of Pleistocene planitial forest in northern Italy that still stands.

This weird, elephant-shaped rock also hosts two ancient tombs.

The only visible remains of this ancient Greek underground temple is its roof protruding from the earth.

This Roman theater was crafted into the local tuff rock and was rediscovered during the 19th-century.

This crystal clear water basin feeds the Lao river and powers a hydroelectric power plant.

This caldera was once associated with the Etruscan god of the underworld.

A perfectly preserved example of a fortified Medieval ricetto.

The ruins of a medieval village that was abandoned after a 19th-century inferno.

This decaying complex from the early 1900s was once the site of massive iron and fluorite mines.

The walls of this tiny Italian church are entirely covered with frescoes.

An enormous sinkhole that local lore attributes to the anger of the Virgin Mary.

This medieval settlement was abandoned after a series of landslides. What remained was largely destroyed during a mock battle for a WWII film reel.