Places ValarieD Wants to Go

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

This Roman underground canal was the longest tunnel ever built until the late 19th-century.

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

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.