Places StepYoshi Wants to Go

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.

A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

A beautifully well-preserved ancient Roman villa.

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

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

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

Roman-era ships unearthed...