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

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

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

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

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

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The middle finger of modernity.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

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

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

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

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