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For decades, vendors have sold clothes once worn by American soldiers who stormed Italy in the 1940s.

The old church, buried by the 1784 Mount Vesuvius eruption, is a remarkably well-preserved place where people now pray for the souls of the dead.

Well-preserved, still-functional sliding wood doors from Ancient Rome can be found in this Vesuvius-stricken house.

The first Italian factory to produce locomotives is now a marvelous museum.

A former Roman town that was once the home of Scipio Africanus.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

The Bourbon royal family had this unique octagonal hunting "cottage" built on a tiny islet in Lake Fusaro.

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

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

Italy's "New Mountain" rose from the ground in a volcanic eruption in 1538.

Italy's third-largest Roman arena gives a peek into the underground operations beneath the ancient spectacles.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.

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

A rococo room covered entirely in porcelain originally constructed for another royal residence.

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

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.