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

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The middle finger of modernity.