On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

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

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

Legend says the only thing buried within this magnificent tomb was a dog.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

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

An ode to the washerwomen who called Pavia home.

Just across from the "Last Supper" painting is the famous painter's vineyard, a gift received for creating the masterpiece.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."