Places raquel9e Wants to Go

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

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

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

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

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

The middle finger of modernity.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."