Beach instrument turned bed and breakfast.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

This deceiving white sand beach gets its brilliant hue from the chemical discharge of a nearby factory.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

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

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

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

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

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.