Places PatrickZRH Wants to Go

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

The intricate geometry inside this Baroque-style dome was designed to create "terror of the human soul."

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

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

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

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

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.