Places snowdrop Wants to Go

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Richard Luke Concanen never set foot on American soil.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

This massive rock balanced for thousands of years being tossed here during a volcanic eruption.

The ruins of a medieval village that was abandoned after a 19th-century inferno.

This beautiful 14th-century castle perched on a promontory overlooks the Bay of Trieste.

A Roman calendar dating to the first century is tucked away in a small town alley.

During World War II, a number of important sculptures and paintings were moved to this castle for safekeeping.

Constructed during the 1960s, this bridge is still the highest in Italy.

This Roman theater was crafted into the local tuff rock and was rediscovered during the 19th-century.

After World War II, this former concentration camp in Northern Italy became a refuge for those displaced by the war.

A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.

A perfectly preserved example of a fortified Medieval ricetto.

A large statue of Pope Gregory XIII in Bologna was disguised as Saint Petronius to avoid destruction.

A small sculpture that pays homage to the famous bronze ear of Ca de l'Oreggia—or does it?

Legend says the only thing buried within this magnificent tomb was a dog.

This decaying complex from the early 1900s was once the site of massive iron and fluorite mines.

The ruins of this medieval castle overlook the lake of Piediluco in what was once a sacred forest.

The hermit's humble home is hidden near the forested peak of Monte Marrone.

According to a local legend, this bridge was constructed by an astrologer with the help of the devil.

Meet the oldest inhabitants of this Italian hamlet, a series of oddly preserved mummies.

This uniquely designed bridge served as the city gate for Comacchio.