This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

This trail was once used to smuggle cigarettes, sugar, and other black market goods between Italy and Switzerland.

Perched above a grotto, this tribute to Mother Nature looks out into the ocean.

The hilltop ruins of a border fortification in the Italian Alps that was much fought over.

Among the busts of heroes of the Roman Republic of 1849, there is also a statue of a boy and his dog.

Two bronze wolves atop this large rock honor the "Wolves of Tuscany" brigade of World War I.

This site marks the oldest known settlement in Campania, inhabited around 9,000 years ago.

A prehistoric route that has claimed many victims is now closed to traffic.

The ruins of this temple were later chosen by Pope Celestine V to found an abbey and a hermitage.

A 15th-century monumental Latin inscription on this house celebrates Lorenzo Manilio's love for Rome.

An enormous sinkhole that local lore attributes to the anger of the Virgin Mary.

The ruins of this medieval castle now stand as a monument against all wars.

This seventh-century fortification marked the western border of the Lombard duchy of Spoleto.

A stately castle in the northern Italian countryside has been restored after years of neglect.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

According to a local legend, this bridge was constructed by an astrologer with the help of the devil.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

You can only access this hermitage by crawling under a ledge suspended above an overhang.

The ruins of this medieval castle overlook the lake of Piediluco in what was once a sacred forest.

This garden among the Florentine hills is complete with a meditation path and works of poetry.

These caves are home to a small church and were used to age cheese.

A two-hour hike in the Orfento Valley leads to the remote ruins.

This hermitage celebrates the legend of Emperor Constantine's healing from leprosy.