This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

One of the highest mountain passes in Europe has been ranked among the best driving roads in the world.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Two planes stand abandoned after the closure of an aircraft-themed restaurant.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

Venice's island of the dead.

The remains of 50,000 World War I soldiers rest under a towering arch overlooking the Alpine battlefields.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

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

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.