A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

The 1940s structure houses what was once Europe's largest telescope.

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

The world's largest "Christmas tree" is illuminated by hundreds of lights stretching 2,000 feet up the slope of Mount Ingino.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

The world's first underwater farm is home to more than 700 plants.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

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

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

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

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

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

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

An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.

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

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

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