Places stonoceno Wants to Go

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.

An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

For hundreds of years, this huge figure has been blessing visitors before they explore his body.

An archaeological treasure trove towers over the valley of Chiavenna.

The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

A horse statue that receives constant makeovers from graffiti artists and locals.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

Small museum dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern astronautics.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

This monolithic slab of art metal crowns a German slag heap.

First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.