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.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

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

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.