Places snowdrop Wants to Go

This house certainly has a unique decor.

The ruins of this medieval castle now stand as a monument against all wars.

Inside features a display of how artistic crucifixes transformed throughout the centuries.

The oldest church in Mantua was buried for centuries under the facades of other structures.

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

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

When occupying Nazi troops detonated a mine below, medieval frescoes were revealed in this small cliff-side hermitage.

A massive line that stretches across the floor of Bologna’s largest church was created by a 17th-century scientist to measure the movements of the Sun.

Five painted skeletons are hiding behind a church in this tiny village in the Italian Alps.

A trail of footprints discovered after a landslide was left not by the Devil, as originally believed, but by an early human ancestor.

This weird, elephant-shaped rock also hosts two ancient tombs.

This long-abandoned village sits across a narrow gorge from a still-inhabited settlement that was once its twin.

The eerie ruins of this feudal fortress witnessed the execution of 60 conspirators in 1387.

This medieval castle was home to a known tyrant and features several hidden passages.

These unique "earth pyramid" clay columns can be found in ravines around the village of Tirolo.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

Though they look like Hobbit houses, these semi-underground stone structures were built for winemaking.

This sinister Baroque entryway could lead you to a terrible fate.

The ruins of this Roman temple dominate the small city in southern Lazio.

The leathery remains of a woman who died in the 13th century now lie in a church named for her.

A Roman temple perched over an Italian town, forgotten several times over.

The world's largest "Christmas tree" is illuminated by hundreds of lights stretching 2,000 feet up the slope of Mount Ingino.

This unusually shaped fortress houses a blend of centuries-old frescoes and modern art.