Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

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

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

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

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

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

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

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

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

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

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

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

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

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

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.