Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

Some people believe that this makeshift space monitoring station received transmissions from clandestine cosmonauts.

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

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

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

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.