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This constantly evolving art space saved an Italian town from its own crippling reputation.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

An abandoned bell tower in the middle of nowhere is the last testimony of a forgotten medieval village.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.

Three underground crypts and a pointed arch under the bell tower make this cathedral unique among Romanesque churches.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

Two planes stand abandoned after the closure of an aircraft-themed restaurant.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.