Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

The Pope’s secret escape route.