Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

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

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

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

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

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

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

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

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.