Two bronze wolves atop this large rock honor the "Wolves of Tuscany" brigade of World War I.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.

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

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

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

A long-buried ancient ruin unearthed right in the middle of the city.

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

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

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

A striking memorial recalls thousands of Bolognese men and women killed fighting fascists in World War II.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

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

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