Places Shastified Wants to Go

This abandoned IDGZ station was one of 49 troposcatter stations in the NATO ACE High network.

This unique museum is home to over 5,000 puppets of all types.

A portrayal of two lamps embraced and in love.

Nearly 800 years old, this river lock is now a public park with a former fortified island.

Over 100 artworks are painted on the walls of this town, making it an open-air museum of contemporary art.

The first passenger cable car in the world.

The crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.

The first Italian factory to produce locomotives is now a marvelous museum.

A completely underground tour following the path of the most precious element: water.

The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.

A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.

Every Easter, a small Sicilian town builds a stunning cathedral out of bread.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

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

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

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

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

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

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.