Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

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

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

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

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

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

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

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

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

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

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.