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

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

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."

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

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

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

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