These ruins of a Phoenician sanctuary in Sicily have a dark history.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

A network of underground water channels that dates back to the Middle Ages.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

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

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.