The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

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

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Venice's island of the dead.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

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

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

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.