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A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

This Italian pyramid is said to hold the mingled remains of the dead from both sides of the Battle of Novara.

Get buzzed beholding one of the world's largest coffee-machine collections, then step into the café for a specially brewed cup.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

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

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

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

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

This 21st century cabinet of curiosities includes dinosaur bones, moon rocks, film memorabilia, and more.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.