Places Zrubi Wants to Go

A blend of nature and art awaits visitors to this park.

Over 100 artworks are painted on the walls of this town, making it an open-air museum of contemporary art.

Two bronze wolves atop this large rock honor the "Wolves of Tuscany" brigade of World War I.

This stately palace, first built in the 16th century, was converted into a prison in 1830.

This iconic rock hermitage was once the abode of a future pope.

The first passenger cable car in the world.

Just one of the Italian corridors vying for the title of the country's narrowest.

This ancient city was home to one of the greatest schools of Greek philosophy.

The crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.

The ruins of a thousand-year-old hermitage are tucked away deep in the sloping forests of Albano Lake.

A floating bridge leaning on barges allows pedestrians to reach the historical center.

A giant owl named Rocco oversees mythical woodland creatures along these charming mountain trails.

A prehistoric route that has claimed many victims is now closed to traffic.

A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.

This region of the Perugia municipality has an unforgettable name.

Once the hunting reserve of a noble family, this is one of the few remnants of Pleistocene planitial forest in northern Italy that still stands.

These unique "earth pyramid" clay columns can be found in ravines around the village of Tirolo.

A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

On the walking path from Monterosso to Vernazza, a small shrine dedicated to feline friends.

An abandoned building that once tightened a power line that stretched across Messina Strait.

The remains of 50,000 World War I soldiers rest under a towering arch overlooking the Alpine battlefields.

This decaying complex from the early 1900s was once the site of massive iron and fluorite mines.

The tallest statue in Italy is also one of the world's tallest statues of Jesus.