A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

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.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

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

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

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

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

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

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

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

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