Florence, Italy
Massimo Listri Foundation
An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.
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Florence, Italy
An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.
Syracuse, Italy
Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.
Rome, Italy
The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.
Venice, Italy
The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.
Vilminore di Scalve, Italy
The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.
Rome, Italy
This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.
Venice, Italy
Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.
Collodi, Italy
Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.
Sperlonga, Italy
The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.
Lainate, Italy
An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.
Monte di Cuma, Italy
Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Orvieto, Italy
This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.
Rome, Italy
This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.
Italy
This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.
Florence, Italy
A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.
Marmore, Italy
Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.
Cefalù, Italy
Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."
Melendugno, Italy
Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.
Calcata Vecchia, Italy
Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Palermo, Italy
This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.
Rome, Italy
This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.
Fregene, Italy
This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.