Places piblyss Wants to Go

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

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

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

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

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

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

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.