The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

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.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

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

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Back in the tiny USSR.