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

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

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

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

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

A wunderkammer of curious objects and intriguing art nestled within a hub of ancient Roman sites.

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

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

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

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.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.