Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

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

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

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

The Pope’s secret escape route.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

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

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

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

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.