Places pierrehinard59 Wants to Go

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

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

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

The abandoned ruins of a failed resort hide on this verdant, picture-perfect island.

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

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

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

Venice's island of the dead.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

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

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

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

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

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