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

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

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

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

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

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

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

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

Venice's island of the dead.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.