Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

The world's first underwater farm is home to more than 700 plants.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

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

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

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

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

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

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.