Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.

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

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

The abandoned ruins of a failed resort hide on this verdant, picture-perfect island.

A stunning hermit's shrine on a steep rocky spur in Northern Italy.

A beautiful discovery site of prehistoric burials.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

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

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.