This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

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

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.