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

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

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

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

When a massive landslide hit one of the world's tallest dams it created a tragic environmental disaster.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

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

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

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

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

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

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

The titular "little arch" near this Italian resort is one of the most popular diving spots in the country.

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

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

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

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

With its mine closed, this old village is starting to resemble a ghost town.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

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