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

A collection of wonderfully preserved 19th-century creatures, as well as hunting trophies seized during a police raid.

A prehistoric route that has claimed many victims is now closed to traffic.

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

Since 1999, this gelateria founded by a string instrument maker has been turning out some of Rome’s best scoops.

Constructed during the 1960s, this bridge is still the highest in Italy.

Visit a secretive crypt before it crumbles to dust.

A stunning fountain depicting a mythological she-goat carved directly into the rocks on the grounds of a Renaissance palace.

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

Europe's only Temple of Mithras located in a natural cave.

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

Beautifully decorated tarot cards from the Middle Ages.

Packed with geological formations, an ancient river, and taxidermied seals, this overlooked coastal cave system is worth a spelunk.

This weird, elephant-shaped rock also hosts two ancient tombs.

Though they look like Hobbit houses, these semi-underground stone structures were built for winemaking.

A trail of footprints discovered after a landslide was left not by the Devil, as originally believed, but by an early human ancestor.

This sinister Baroque entryway could lead you to a terrible fate.

A small but very fascinating fountain in the center of Rome with four books and a deer carved.

This museum located in Fondi is also said to be the most haunted building in town.

A mountain cave is the site of archaeological findings and Paleolithic rock art.

Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.

Things seem to roll, flow and run uphill on this short patch of road near Ariccia, Italy.

If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.

A medieval house with mysterious alchemical inscriptions on its facade