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

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

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

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

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The middle finger of modernity.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

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

This rough experimental house was created by flooding a dirt hill with concrete.

Remarkably intact Roman stone fortifications have encircled this Spanish city for centuries.

This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.

Open air sculptures by an eccentric and loin-clothed hermit.