Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

This constantly evolving art space saved an Italian town from its own crippling reputation.

A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.

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

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

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

This deceiving white sand beach gets its brilliant hue from the chemical discharge of a nearby factory.

This lavish 20th-century casino adorns labels for San Pellegrino water.

If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.