Nicknamed “The Mushroom,” this unique water tower has been featured in several iconic movie scenes.

A ghost town on the slopes of a hand-shaped rock is haunted by the story of a 17th-century murder.

It's believed that these columns marked the end of the Via Appia.

A small town lost in the mountains of southern Italy hosts the childhood home of one of the most famous saints of the 20th century.

This medieval settlement was abandoned after a series of landslides. What remained was largely destroyed during a mock battle for a WWII film reel.

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

Constructed during the 1960s, this bridge is still the highest in Italy.

Two of the few remaining life-sized Greek bronzes were submerged in the sea for over 2,000 years.

A town saturated in Italian rationalist architecture was once marshland drained by Mussolini.

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

According to a local legend, this bridge was constructed by an astrologer with the help of the devil.

The ruins of this medieval castle now stand as a monument against all wars.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.

Unscathed for almost 2,000 years, the best preserved Roman triumphal arch is in a small southern Italian city.

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

This 2,000-year-old Doric bridge is still open to pedestrian traffic to this day.

This crescent-shaped beach is said to glow under the light of a full moon.

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.

A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

Famous landmarks and structures from across Italy fill this miniature park.

When a massive landslide hit one of the world's tallest dams it created a tragic environmental disaster.