Places ptitz Wants to Go

Gorgeous views of Italian mountains and valleys form the backdrop of this unique open-air theater.

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

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

Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

A unique Tuscan hideaway acts as an art mecca as well as a hotel.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

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.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

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