A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

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

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

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

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

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