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The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

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

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.