The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

The largest civilian satellite control center in the world is located in the middle of a drained lake.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

This war memorial holds the remains of around 20,000 World War I soldiers from both sides of the conflict.

A museum entirely dedicated to the evolution of mining lamps.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Abandoned medieval hill town.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

This Roman underground canal was the longest tunnel ever built until the late 19th-century.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

A network of underground water channels that dates back to the Middle Ages.

Two of the few remaining life-sized Greek bronzes were submerged in the sea for over 2,000 years.

This building was designed to celebrate Italy's victory in World War I.

Six paintings reminding you that death is integral part of everyday life.

Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

A British Commonwealth cemetery in the heart of Milan, with 421 allied soldiers died during World War II.