The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

The second-highest village in Lazio has attracted artists for 400 years and is now a spectacular open-air art gallery.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

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

A medieval Italian village is fighting depopulation with this vibrant annual street art festival.

The world's largest "Christmas tree" is illuminated by hundreds of lights stretching 2,000 feet up the slope of Mount Ingino.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

This park on the outskirts of Rome boasts two ancient Roman aqueducts and a medieval tower.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

A magnificent Neogothic tomb hides within this Italian fairytale-like forest.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

The now-abandoned Fascist summer colony served a dark purpose during World War II.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

Ernest Hemingway was the first to sign this colorful wall covered in thousands of celebrity signatures.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.