A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

For hundreds of years, this huge figure has been blessing visitors before they explore his body.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

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

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.