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This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

One of the oldest libraries in the world is still operating and contains the oldest existing document in the Italian language.

Hidden in a high mountain cave, this hermitage dates back to the ninth century.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

A series of caves, tunnels, and wells filled with fascinating figures and symbols.

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

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Also known as the Temple of Poseidon, this is one of the best-preserved Greek temples in the world.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

Featuring the last fully walkable parapet walkway in Europe.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

South of Bologna, a limestone grotto with a protruding waterfall and a floor full of cave pearls.

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

In the 1940s, Italian architect Mario Cavallè built a dozen of these round homes in northern Milan.

The “Sistine Chapel” of the Middle Ages merges 11th-century science and religion in wondrous hues.