Places Taydal Wants to Go

Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Somber memorial to the May 10, 1933, book-burning which took place on this spot.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

The first statue to be added to Saint Peter's Square in over 350 years is an ode to migrants and refugees around the world.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

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

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

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

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

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.