In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

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.

An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

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

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

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

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

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

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

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

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

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