Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

These caves are home to a small church and were used to age cheese.

This hermitage celebrates the legend of Emperor Constantine's healing from leprosy.

An abandoned village that resides along the mountains of the Aosta Valley.

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

Ancient, mysterious stone altars are hidden among wild woods in central Italy.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

An abandoned monastery sits on a far-off island in the Adriatic Sea.

Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini fell in love with this lonely 13th-century tower while making his most famous film.

Claude Monet immortalized this medieval bridge in two of his paintings.

Destroyed numerous times, this centuries-old bridge has always been rebuilt with its original design.

With its mine closed, this old village is starting to resemble a ghost town.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

This unusually shaped fortress houses a blend of centuries-old frescoes and modern art.

It took more than 300 years to build this church, which is home to two sacred vessels believed to hold the blood of Christ.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

These artificial caves crafted by ancient Romans were elaborate fish farms for moray eels.

The remains of this medieval Roman road and lookout towers dot the rugged coastline of southern Lazio.

A small island in Lake Garda that was used as a burial site, pirate hideout, and a monastery.