The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

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

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

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

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

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

The remains of this ornate chapel now act as a portal to a cramped French cemetery.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.