Marostica, Italy
The Living Chess Game - Partita a Scacchi di Marostica
Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.
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Marostica, Italy
Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.
Bologna, Italy
A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.
Ravello, Italy
Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.
Padua, Italy
The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."
Chiusdino, Italy
These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.
Langhirano, Italy
Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.
Florence, Italy
The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.
Florence, Italy
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Florence, Italy
Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.
Pozzuoli, Italy
A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.
Rome, Italy
Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.
Urbania, Italy
Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.
Italy
A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.
Venice, Italy
Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.
Monterosso al Mare, Italy
The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.
Cervia, Italy
A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.
Milan, Italy
Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.
Florence, Italy
Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.
Stazzema, Italy
A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.
Perca, Italy
These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.
Genoa, Italy
A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.
Realmonte, Italy
"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.
Rome, Italy
A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.
Alberobello, Italy
Southern Italy's spinning top village.