Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.