A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

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

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

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

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

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Venice's island of the dead.

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

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.