A stunning fountain depicting a mythological she-goat carved directly into the rocks on the grounds of a Renaissance palace.

A 17th-century doorway in a small Sabine village is a portal into the mysteries of alchemy.

This medieval castle was home to a known tyrant and features several hidden passages.

A founding document of the European Union was written on an island where Roman emperors once banished women.

A striped 12th-century basilica sits in the countryside of Sardinia.

Hidden in a high mountain cave, this hermitage dates back to the ninth century.

A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

A two-hour hike in the Orfento Valley leads to the remote ruins.

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

Claude Monet immortalized this medieval bridge in two of his paintings.

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.

Was this cave created by Hercules's wrath, the devil, or volcanic activity?

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

The remains of this medieval Roman road and lookout towers dot the rugged coastline of southern Lazio.

The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.

This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.

The second-highest village in Lazio has attracted artists for 400 years and is now a spectacular open-air art gallery.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

A monument to the migrants who cross the dangerous waters between North Africa and a tiny Italian island.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

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

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

Legend said this huge, gnarled tree sheltered the saint during a storm.