The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

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

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

A medieval Italian village is fighting depopulation with this vibrant annual street art festival.

A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

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

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

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

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

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

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.