Italy, bro.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

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

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

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

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

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

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

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

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.