This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

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

The city of Palestrina was built around this magnificent terraced sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Fortuna.

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

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

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

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

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

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

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

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

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

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

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

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

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

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