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

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

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

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.