Borgo Grotta Gigante, Italy
Grotta Gigante
One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.
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Borgo Grotta Gigante, Italy
One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.
Melendugno, Italy
Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Milan, Italy
Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Rome, Italy
This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.
Belpasso, Italy
The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.
Rome, Italy
The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.
Turin, Italy
The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.
Sant'Agata Dé Goti, Italy
This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.
Florence, Italy
A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.
Palermo, Italy
This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.
Italy
Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.
Rome, Italy
A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.
Rome, Italy
This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.
Florence, Italy
An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.
Pramarzo, Italy
Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.
Viterbo, Italy
This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.
Florence, Italy
This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.
Venice, Italy
Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.
Vagli Sopra, Italy
This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.
Isola San Giulio, Italy
A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.