Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

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

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Venice's island of the dead.

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

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

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

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

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

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

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

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

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

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