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Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

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.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Once an ancient Roman bath, now a hotbed of geothermal energy and a hub for energetic innovations.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

The Bourbon royal family had this unique octagonal hunting "cottage" built on a tiny islet in Lake Fusaro.

Italy's "New Mountain" rose from the ground in a volcanic eruption in 1538.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.