Ah, beautiful, romantic Italy. Everywhere you go is gorgeous—the stuff of Instagram pictures to make your friends back home writhe in envy. Right? Well, not always.
Italy has its fair share of aesthetically challenged places that aren’t worth even a millisecond on your itinerary. Seriously, they couldn’t pay people to take a postcard—if they even made them.
All joking aside, it is admittedly tricky to condemn a whole city or area as “ugly”—even the most unsightly Italian areas will usually have at least one historic church, some natural beauty, or a decent ancient quarter. In some cases, the places on this list—sourced from polls created by Italian nationals—were built after the devastating World Wars with little resources, or, conversely, have rich histories but have declined tragically due to government corruption and the resulting local apathy. Any way you slice it, there’s room for improvement in a country that has so many other incredible things to offer. You’ve done it before, Italy. You can do it again.