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

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

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

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

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

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

Roman-era ships unearthed...

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

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