The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

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.

Venice's island of the dead.

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

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

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

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

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

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

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

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.