Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

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

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

A town saturated in Italian rationalist architecture was once marshland drained by Mussolini.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.