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

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

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

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

Read a book with a glass of wine at this classically restored bar.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

Continental Europe's only museum devoted to salt and pepper shakers features more than 20,000 designs.

Translating as "The Jump of the Girlfriend," this stunning waterfall has a tragic legend behind it.

Vibrant street art created with mixed media.