The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

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

Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini fell in love with this lonely 13th-century tower while making his most famous film.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

A lonesome Moai stands in a small Italian town some 9,000 miles away from its Easter Island brethren.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

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

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

A magnificent Neogothic tomb hides within this Italian fairytale-like forest.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

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

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The middle finger of modernity.