The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

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

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

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...

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

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

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.