This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

The intricate geometry inside this Baroque-style dome was designed to create "terror of the human soul."

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

A perfectly preserved example of a fortified Medieval ricetto.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

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

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

An unsettling painting of three faceless sisters that is surrounded by history and legend.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

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

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

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.