Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

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

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The middle finger of modernity.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.