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

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

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

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

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

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.