"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

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

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

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

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

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

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.