The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

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

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

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

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

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

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

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

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

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

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

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.