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

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

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

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

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

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

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

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.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

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.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

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

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.