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Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

This oddly shaped church resembles a rocket.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

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

A beautifully well-preserved ancient Roman villa.

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.