Brescia, Italy
Bonomini Tomb
Legend says the only thing buried within this magnificent tomb was a dog.
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Brescia, Italy
Legend says the only thing buried within this magnificent tomb was a dog.
Modena, Italy
This beautiful 150-year-old synagogue survived Italy's fascist period and the Second World War.
Bra, Italy
A collection of wonderfully preserved 19th-century creatures, as well as hunting trophies seized during a police raid.
Barolo, Italy
A stunning medieval castle houses this eclectic, interactive tribute to all things wine.
Coreglia Antelminelli, Italy
The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.
Ventotene, Italy
A founding document of the European Union was written on an island where Roman emperors once banished women.
Nemoli, Italy
This small but lovely sinkhole lake is the last remnant of a great prehistoric water basin.
Ravenna, Italy
An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.
Ventotene, Italy
Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.
Milan, Italy
This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.
Genoa, Italy
Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.
Sabaudia, Italy
A town saturated in Italian rationalist architecture was once marshland drained by Mussolini.
Cagliari, Italy
A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.
Nardò, Italy
A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.
Albenga, Italy
A slingshot from this delightful collection is awarded each year to someone who has "pulled metaphorical slings in favor of the weak and marginalized."
Palermo, Italy
This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.
Partschins, Italy
Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.
Como, Italy
Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.
Civitacampomarano, Italy
A medieval Italian village is fighting depopulation with this vibrant annual street art festival.
Torre Annunziata, Italy
This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.
Palermo, Italy
A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.
Lampedusa e Linosa, Italy
Contrary to what its name suggests, you won't find any bunnies here.
Naples, Italy
This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.
Praia A Mare, Italy
The abandoned ruins of a failed resort hide on this verdant, picture-perfect island.