Places stonoceno Wants to Go

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.