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The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

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

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

A unique Tuscan hideaway acts as an art mecca as well as a hotel.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

The Pope’s secret escape route.