Places remcrae Wants to Go

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

Church holding the preserved body of a levitating saint.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

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

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.