Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

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

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

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

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

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

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

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

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

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

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.