This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

Destroyed numerous times, this centuries-old bridge has always been rebuilt with its original design.

It took more than 300 years to build this church, which is home to two sacred vessels believed to hold the blood of Christ.

An architectural oddity where the triglyphs of the courtyard of walls create an optical illusion.

A room filled with frescos that make it seem like the walls are crumbling down while giants die in despair.

The remains of the last Gonzaga villa, a luxurious palace built in spite of an economic crisis.

In Lago Superiore, the largest expanse of lotus flowers outside of Asia is hard to miss.

Once the hunting reserve of a noble family, this is one of the few remnants of Pleistocene planitial forest in northern Italy that still stands.

This decaying complex from the early 1900s was once the site of massive iron and fluorite mines.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

An eclectic collection of highly specialized bicycles once used by artisans for their specific needs.

The walls of this tiny Italian church are entirely covered with frescoes.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

Statues portraying anatomical deformities were placed in this garden to foster ethical behavior.

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

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

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

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.