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

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

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

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

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

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

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

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

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

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

Venice's island of the dead.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.