The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

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

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

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

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

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

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

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

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

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

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

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.