A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

An Italian hillside ghost town.

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

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

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

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

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

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

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

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.