Places stonoceno Wants to Go

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

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

A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

The remains of this deep, dark mine have left behind a haunting rocky warren of tunnels.

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.