Places noaha Wants to Go

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

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

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

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

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 outdoor library provides around-the-clock access to around 7,000 books.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Abandoned Roman Catholic chapel abused by Satanists before being restored.