Venice, Italy
Lazzaretto Nuovo
The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."
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Venice, Italy
The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."
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Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.
Balestrino, Italy
Abandoned medieval hill town.
Naples, Italy
This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.
Doganella di Ninfa, Italy
Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.
La Maddalena, Italy
Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.
Cortenova, Italy
The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.
Milan, Italy
A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.
Nervesa della Battaglia, Italy
Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.
Milan, Italy
This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
Saturnia, Italy
Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Alghero, Italy
Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.
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According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Leggiuno, Italy
This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.
Dublin, Ireland
A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."