Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

Things seem to roll, flow and run uphill on this short patch of road near Ariccia, Italy.

A beautiful discovery site of prehistoric burials.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

A stunning hermit's shrine on a steep rocky spur in Northern Italy.

A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.

An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

The 1,000-year-old abbey is the birthplace of modern musical notation.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

The city of Palestrina was built around this magnificent terraced sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Fortuna.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.