Places Zrubi Wants to Go

Things seem to roll, flow and run uphill on this short patch of road near Ariccia, Italy.

Was this cave created by Hercules's wrath, the devil, or volcanic activity?

South of Bologna, a limestone grotto with a protruding waterfall and a floor full of cave pearls.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

A massive bridge forms part of an aqueduct that was deemed an architectural wonder of its time.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

This enormous sinkhole hides a secret world created from divine wrath.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

An abandoned bell tower in the middle of nowhere is the last testimony of a forgotten medieval village.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

This network of roads is one of the most unique Etruscan creations ever discovered.

These pools have been abandoned for over 20 years.

The now-abandoned Fascist summer colony served a dark purpose during World War II.

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

This medieval hilltop village was abandoned at the end of the 19th century, after existing for more than 500 years.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.