Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

Just across from the "Last Supper" painting is the famous painter's vineyard, a gift received for creating the masterpiece.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

Venice's island of the dead.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.