Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

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

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

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

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.