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

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

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

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

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

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

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

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

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

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

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.

Italy's "New Mountain" rose from the ground in a volcanic eruption in 1538.

An abandoned building that once tightened a power line that stretched across Messina Strait.

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

A slingshot from this delightful collection is awarded each year to someone who has "pulled metaphorical slings in favor of the weak and marginalized."

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

A mysterious stele of unknown origin sits on the peak of this curious mountain.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

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