Bergamo, Italy
Cappella Colleoni
If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.
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Bergamo, Italy
If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.
Cocullo, Italy
Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.
Locorotondo, Italy
The oldest-known example of a historic architectural style recognized by UNESCO.
Trieste, Italy
One of the tallest lighthouses in the world also serves as a monument to the fallen of World War I.
Mantua, Italy
In Lago Superiore, the largest expanse of lotus flowers outside of Asia is hard to miss.
San Vito di Cadore, Italy
While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.
Cori, Italy
The ruins of this Roman temple dominate the small city in southern Lazio.
Genoa, Italy
Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.
Como, Italy
Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.
Turin, Italy
This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.
Alleghe, Italy
A devastating landslide accidentally created this tourist hotspot.
Turin, Italy
This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.
Palermo, Italy
This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.
Ravenna, Italy
The roof of this ancient mausoleum is made from a single Istrian stone weighing a massive 230 tons.
Vitorchiano, Italy
A lonesome Moai stands in a small Italian town some 9,000 miles away from its Easter Island brethren.
Dolceacqua, Italy
Claude Monet immortalized this medieval bridge in two of his paintings.
Lampedusa e Linosa, Italy
Contrary to what its name suggests, you won't find any bunnies here.
Rieti, Italy
Templar knights fleeing persecution are said to have left this sword in stone as a landmark in 1307.
Viggianello, Italy
The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.
Rome, Italy
This hermitage celebrates the legend of Emperor Constantine's healing from leprosy.
Parma, Italy
The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.
Ponte Nossa, Italy
This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.
Brallo di Pregola, Italy
An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.
Alianello, Italy
Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.