Places sfmichelearmstrong Wants to Go

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

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

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

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

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

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

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

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.