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

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

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

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

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

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

The remains of an ancient Roman city are hidden underneath Bologna's beautiful public library.