A plaque honoring a Hungarian hero of Italy is hidden in plain sight in Palermo.

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

An unusual sculpture with a meaning shrouded in mystery.

A collection of wonderfully preserved 19th-century creatures, as well as hunting trophies seized during a police raid.

This massive rock balanced for thousands of years being tossed here during a volcanic eruption.

A Roman calendar dating to the first century is tucked away in a small town alley.

Inside features a display of how artistic crucifixes transformed throughout the centuries.

This incredible second-century sculpture depicts a trio of gods worshipped by the ancient Romans.

In this museum, visitors are invited to touch the art.

Its look is severe, but its location, isolated on a hill in the middle of the countryside, is particularly scenic.

This deceiving white sand beach gets its brilliant hue from the chemical discharge of a nearby factory.

Legend says the only thing buried within this magnificent tomb was a dog.

Meet the oldest inhabitants of this Italian hamlet, a series of oddly preserved mummies.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

A cone-shaped top and cylindrical body set this 900-year-old structure apart from other Italian bell towers.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

A two-hour hike in the Orfento Valley leads to the remote ruins.

Since the 1960s, this small village has invited painters to decorate its walls.

A stately castle in the northern Italian countryside has been restored after years of neglect.

This museum located in Fondi is also said to be the most haunted building in town.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

A network of underground water channels that dates back to the Middle Ages.

The venerated body of a 12th century saint is celebrated each year with the 'Race of the Candles.'