An annual goat race takes place within the walls of this medieval castle.

At this medieval church, Thomas Beckett was cantonized as a martyr.

This museum is home to 22 panes depicting skeletons dressed in colorful garments.

Although called a funicular by both its owner and the locals this historic railroad is actually a rack and pinion system.

This stretch of the ancient Roman road is preserved in a valley that witnessed many battles and legendary highwaymen.

Sip a Negroni Sbagliato in the bar that invented it.

The ruins of a medieval village that was abandoned after a 19th-century inferno.

First founded in 1472, this is the oldest bank in the world. Its history may explain why we call financial institutions "banks."

One of the four sanctuaries of Rieti's Holy Valley was the site of the first living nativity scene.

A limestone grotto where daylight filters in from below and turns the water a beautiful turquoise. Also home to a small underwater nativity scene.

This medieval oratory decorated in magnificent frescos was constructed after Charlemagne received a vision.

This hermitage celebrates the legend of Emperor Constantine's healing from leprosy.

A magnificent Neogothic tomb hides within this Italian fairytale-like forest.

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

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.