Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.

An 11th-century mountaintop fortress that played a crucial role in Italy's papal wars is now a vacation rental.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

The world's first underwater farm is home to more than 700 plants.

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

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

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

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

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

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

A unique Tuscan hideaway acts as an art mecca as well as a hotel.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

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

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

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