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

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

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

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

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

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.