Church holding the preserved body of a levitating saint.

A beautifully well-preserved ancient Roman villa.

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

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

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

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

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

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

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The Pope’s secret escape route.