Featuring the last fully walkable parapet walkway in Europe.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

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

A beautifully well-preserved ancient Roman villa.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

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

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.