Places Zrubi Wants to Go

Dedicated to one of the author's most iconic works.

This rough experimental house was created by flooding a dirt hill with concrete.

Open air sculptures by an eccentric and loin-clothed hermit.

Crumbling World War II-era gun emplacements still stand near lighthouses on the Spanish coast.

This humble bench is considered the most beautiful in the world.

This "grandfather" eucalyptus is one of the tallest trees in Europe.

These pillars at the main entrance of this church are actually a hidden musical instrument.

A former Roman town that was once the home of Scipio Africanus.

Two planes stand abandoned after the closure of an aircraft-themed restaurant.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

Hundreds of these oversized benches have been built as an art project meant to change people's perspectives.

Can you see the face staring out at you from the buttress of this bridge?

Musings of an artist carved into a rural stonewall.

Hike along an abandoned railway up to a popular pilgrimage site.

The haunting remains of a World War I fort perched atop a mountain.

Acrosticism and palindromes on this randomly placed stone.

The ghostly remains of a gunpowder mill lost in 70 hectares of thick woods.

An old watchtower from the 16th-century now watches over sulfur springs and one of Lazio's last coastal woodlands.

This abandoned IDGZ station was one of 49 troposcatter stations in the NATO ACE High network.

An old mining site that is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Once one of the largest sites of silver deposits in Italy.

The community gathered on this stone table to make important decisions, but it was also the site of witch trials.

This small hermitage on Mount Scalambra was built near what some believe is the miraculous imprint of Saint Benedict's hand.