Places n389 Wants to Go

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

The 1,000-year-old abbey is the birthplace of modern musical notation.

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

An old mining site that is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

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

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

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

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

Abandoned medieval hill town.

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

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.