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

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

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

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

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

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

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

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

An Italian hillside ghost town.