Places StepYoshi Wants to Go

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

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.