Asciano, Italy
Il Bosco della Ragnaia
Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.
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Asciano, Italy
Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.
Rome, Italy
Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.
Lido, Italy
The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.
Venice, Italy
The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.
Palermo, Italy
This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.
Bologna, Italy
A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.
Cesena, Italy
A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.
Milan, Italy
The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.
Rome, Italy
Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.
Milan, Italy
Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.
Orvieto, Italy
Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.
Palmanova, Italy
A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.
Bologna, Italy
An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.
Stazzema, Italy
A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.
Perca, Italy
These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.
Borgo a Mozzano, Italy
A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.
Milan, Italy
Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.
Bologna, Italy
An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.
Turin, Italy
A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.
Cervia, Italy
A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.
Rome, Italy
A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.
Venice, Italy
This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.
Rome, Italy
The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.
Milan, Italy
Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.