Places Tinker Belle Wants to Go

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

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

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.