When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

A wunderkammer of curious objects and intriguing art nestled within a hub of ancient Roman sites.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

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

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

The city of Palestrina was built around this magnificent terraced sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Fortuna.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

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...

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.