Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

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

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

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

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

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

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.