A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

Venice's island of the dead.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.