Places stephlt25 Wants to Go

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Take a giant yellow bird cage to the top of Elba's highest mountain.

A museum dedicated to highlighting the extraordinary in ordinary lives.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Church holding the preserved body of a levitating saint.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.

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

This whimsical fountain depicts a winged siren shooting water out of her nipples into the fires of Mount Vesuvius.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

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

A rococo room covered entirely in porcelain originally constructed for another royal residence.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

First founded in 1472, this is the oldest bank in the world. Its history may explain why we call financial institutions "banks."

The largest ongoing mosaic project in Europe.

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?