Internet rumors, often involving Icelandic singer Bjork, have abounded regarding this isolated outcrop of rock.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

The steel cable lets adventurers zoom between two mountain towns at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

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

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

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

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

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