Only the facade of this house was built so a father could fool his son.

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

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

Destroyed numerous times, this centuries-old bridge has always been rebuilt with its original design.

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

The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

This artistic temple brings together multiple architecture styles, but is only an example of one.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

Featuring the last fully walkable parapet walkway in Europe.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

A sudden, striking cluster of hills south of Padua has been attracting visitors for centuries.

A twisted steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center is the centerpiece of this memorial for those who died on September 11, 2001.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

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

The tomb of the mythological founder of Padua is not hidden in some obscure crypt, but stands right in the middle of the city square.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

One of the largest squares in Europe contains an entire artificial island.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.