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This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

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

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

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.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

The now-abandoned Fascist summer colony served a dark purpose during World War II.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

This long-abandoned village sits across a narrow gorge from a still-inhabited settlement that was once its twin.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

The ghostly remains of a gunpowder mill lost in 70 hectares of thick woods.

With its mine closed, this old village is starting to resemble a ghost town.

Deep underground, the rusting remains of a German water pumping station from World War II.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."