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

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

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

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

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

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

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.