Sperlonga, Italy
Villa of Tiberius
The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.
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Sperlonga, Italy
The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Belpasso, Italy
The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.
Lainate, Italy
An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Naples, Italy
Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.
Orvieto, Italy
This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.
Borgo Grotta Gigante, Italy
One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.
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This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.
Florence, Italy
Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.
Melendugno, Italy
Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.
Venice, Italy
Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.
Cefalù, Italy
Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."
Venice, Italy
Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.
Rome, Italy
The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.
Calcata Vecchia, Italy
Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.
Stra, Italy
A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.
Rome, Italy
This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.
Lido, Italy
Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.
Rome, Italy
The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.
Rome, Italy
An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.