The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.

A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

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

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

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

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

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

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 glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.