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

With its mine closed, this old village is starting to resemble a ghost town.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

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

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

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

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

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

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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