This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

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

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

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

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

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

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

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.