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

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

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

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

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