These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

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

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini fell in love with this lonely 13th-century tower while making his most famous film.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

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

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

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

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

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

Venice's island of the dead.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

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

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

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

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

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

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