Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

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

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

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

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

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

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

Venice's island of the dead.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.