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.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

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

A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

The former atelier of Mario Cassisa is a treasure trove of paintings, sculptures, and artist books.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

A network of underground water channels that dates back to the Middle Ages.

A plaque honoring a Hungarian hero of Italy is hidden in plain sight in Palermo.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Built on a medieval synagogue, this church has a burial crypt, tunnel system, and Jewish ritual bath hiding deep underneath.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

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

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.