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One of the highest mountain passes in Europe has been ranked among the best driving roads in the world.

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

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

The sunlight passing through the opening of this huge cave system creates a magical effect.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.