Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

A small town lost in the mountains of southern Italy hosts the childhood home of one of the most famous saints of the 20th century.

Meet the oldest inhabitants of this Italian hamlet, a series of oddly preserved mummies.

The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.

The ruins of a medieval village that was abandoned after a 19th-century inferno.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

Claude Monet immortalized this medieval bridge in two of his paintings.

Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.

The ruins of this medieval tower are destined to crumble into the sea.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

The remains of an ancient Roman city are hidden underneath Bologna's beautiful public library.

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

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

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

Ever loyal to Roma, the small village of Albe in the Abruzzo region carried on until an earthquake did it in.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

A medieval Italian village is fighting depopulation with this vibrant annual street art festival.

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

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

An abandoned bell tower in the middle of nowhere is the last testimony of a forgotten medieval village.

Italy's third-largest Roman arena gives a peek into the underground operations beneath the ancient spectacles.

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