All Places in Naples

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

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

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

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

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

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

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.