Places ptitz Wants to Go

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.

This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.

Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.

Two planes stand abandoned after the closure of an aircraft-themed restaurant.

A lonesome Moai stands in a small Italian town some 9,000 miles away from its Easter Island brethren.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

This constantly evolving art space saved an Italian town from its own crippling reputation.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.

An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

Take a giant yellow bird cage to the top of Elba's highest mountain.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

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

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

The world's first underwater farm is home to more than 700 plants.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.