Places WanderlustDiaries Wants to Go

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

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

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

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

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

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

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

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.

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

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

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

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.