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The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

An unusual sculpture with a meaning shrouded in mystery.

This Tuscan church contains a gallery of over 700 ex-votos depicting near-death experiences.

This high-speed test track is popular with car manufacturers, speed freaks and orbiting astronauts.

This deceiving white sand beach gets its brilliant hue from the chemical discharge of a nearby factory.

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

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

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

A great white whale sculpture now sits in the location where the remains of a prehistoric cetacean were found.

On the walking path from Monterosso to Vernazza, a small shrine dedicated to feline friends.

This brightly-colored chapel is a contemporary jewel standing in the middle of a La Morra vineyard.

The world's largest "Christmas tree" is illuminated by hundreds of lights stretching 2,000 feet up the slope of Mount Ingino.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

The roof of this ancient mausoleum is made from a single Istrian stone weighing a massive 230 tons.

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

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

This sturdy, circular stronghold served as one of the forts that protected the Venetian Lagoon.

At an estimated 3,800 years old, this olive tree is one of the oldest on earth.

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

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.