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

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

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

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

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

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.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

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

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.