These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

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

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

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

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

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

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

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

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

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...