At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

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

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.

This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

A lonesome Moai stands in a small Italian town some 9,000 miles away from its Easter Island brethren.

A town saturated in Italian rationalist architecture was once marshland drained by Mussolini.

A slingshot from this delightful collection is awarded each year to someone who has "pulled metaphorical slings in favor of the weak and marginalized."

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

A medieval Italian village is fighting depopulation with this vibrant annual street art festival.

This park on the outskirts of Rome boasts two ancient Roman aqueducts and a medieval tower.