A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

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

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

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

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

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

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

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

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.