A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

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

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Venice's island of the dead.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.