Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

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

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

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

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

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

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

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

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

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

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

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

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