Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

Just saying the name of this town out loud is said to bring bad luck.

Take a giant yellow bird cage to the top of Elba's highest mountain.

Hidden in a high mountain cave, this hermitage dates back to the ninth century.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

The titular "little arch" near this Italian resort is one of the most popular diving spots in the country.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.

Featuring the last fully walkable parapet walkway in Europe.

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

This mysterious Sardinian festival sees a horde of blank-faced equestrians compete for tin stars.

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

Known for centuries as the famous Roman emperor's burial place, this monument is actually something else.

The “Sistine Chapel” of the Middle Ages merges 11th-century science and religion in wondrous hues.

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

The pristine waters crossing this forest form a hidden waterfall among the dense vegetation.

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

Buried next to Pompeii, this lesser-known Roman villa was the opulent vacation home of Emperor Nero's wife.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

This scenic fortress dates back at least 2,400 years to the time of Magna Graecia.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.