People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

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

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

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

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

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.