Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This lavish 20th-century casino adorns labels for San Pellegrino water.

This house certainly has a unique decor.

This fiberglass version of the Awakening sculpture by Seward Johnson, now resides in its third location in Italy, in Viterbo.

A lonesome Moai stands in a small Italian town some 9,000 miles away from its Easter Island brethren.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

This Renaissance palace features a unique architectural design and is now home to the Ferrara National Art Gallery.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

An architectural oddity where the triglyphs of the courtyard of walls create an optical illusion.

It took more than 300 years to build this church, which is home to two sacred vessels believed to hold the blood of Christ.

A room filled with frescos that make it seem like the walls are crumbling down while giants die in despair.

The oldest church in Mantua was buried for centuries under the facades of other structures.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This Volcano-like rest area was designed by architect Giulio Ceppi built according to energy efficiency and ecological footprint standards.

See what remains of a once grand ancient Roman circus.