The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

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

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

A lavish 16th-century mansion filled with spectacular staircases, fantastic frescoes, and gorgeous gardens.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

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

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.