A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.