Places omnius Wants to Go

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

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

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

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

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

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

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

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

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

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

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.