Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

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

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

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

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

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

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

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

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

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

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.