Torre Annunziata, Italy
Rock of Rovigliano
This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.
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Torre Annunziata, Italy
This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.
Capo Testa, Italy
Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.
Le Castella, Italy
This scenic fortress dates back at least 2,400 years to the time of Magna Graecia.
Piombino, Italy
An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.
Siena, Italy
Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.
Bologna, Italy
The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.
Torre Annunziata, Italy
Buried next to Pompeii, this lesser-known Roman villa was the opulent vacation home of Emperor Nero's wife.
Sant'Ambrogio di Torino, Italy
The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."
Rome, Italy
The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.
Bagheria, Italy
A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.
Venice, Italy
Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.
Cropani, Italy
The pristine waters crossing this forest form a hidden waterfall among the dense vegetation.
Minori, Italy
A beautifully well-preserved ancient Roman villa.
Bari, Italy
A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.
Capri, Italy
The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.
Masua, Italy
This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.
Palermo, Italy
This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.
Nardò, Italy
A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.
Pavia, Italy
A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...
Turin, Italy
The intricate geometry inside this Baroque-style dome was designed to create "terror of the human soul."
Palermo, Italy
This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.
Iglesias, Italy
On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.
Dolomites, Italy
A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.
Bologna, Italy
A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.