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

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

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

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

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

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

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

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

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

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

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

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

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.

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

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

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

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

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

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