Places Ninienissa Wants to Go

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.

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

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

A 15th-century Corsican chapel that possesses a rare Catholic monument: a "Scala Santa," or "Holy Stairs."

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

A beautiful discovery site of prehistoric burials.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.