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

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

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

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

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

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

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

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

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

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

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

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

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