Venice, Italy
Isola di San Michele
Venice's island of the dead.
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Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Milan, Italy
Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Rome, Italy
This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Rome, Italy
This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.
Fregene, Italy
This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.
Sasso di Castalda, Italy
Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.
Rome, Italy
The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.
Sant'Agata Dé Goti, Italy
This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.
Turin, Italy
The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.
Rome, Italy
An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.
Italy
Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.
Naples, Italy
Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.
Milan, Italy
Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.
Rome, Italy
This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.
Viterbo, Italy
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.
Rome, Italy
The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.
Pramarzo, Italy
Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.
Venice, Italy
Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.
Rome, Italy
This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.
Rome, Italy
A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.
Rome, Italy
This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.