Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

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

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

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

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.