A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

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

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

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

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

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

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.