The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.