Rome, Italy
The Wax-Encased Remains of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.
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Rome, Italy
The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.
Milan, Italy
Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.
Riomaggiore, Italy
A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Consonno, Italy
This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.
Rome, Italy
The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.
Rome, Italy
A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
San Gimignano, Italy
Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.
Milan, Italy
Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.
Capalbio, Italy
Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Sperlonga, Italy
The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.
Monte di Cuma, Italy
Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.
Borgo Grotta Gigante, Italy
One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.
Florence, Italy
An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.
Italy
This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.
Vagli Sopra, Italy
This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.
Orvieto, Italy
This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.
Rome, Italy
Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.
Milan, Italy
Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.
Milan, Italy
The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.
Stra, Italy
A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.