A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

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

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

Venice's island of the dead.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

Each spring, residents of this Czech town hoist a 'slain' metal dragon onto the city hall to commemorate a local medieval legend

A half-buried vehicle in Prague's is the latest iteration in a long-running piece by Czech artist David Černý.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.