Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.

The ancient Greeks abandoned this quarry to escape Hannibal's devastating invasion.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

Every Easter, a small Sicilian town builds a stunning cathedral out of bread.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.