Chiusdino, Italy
Abbey of San Galgano
These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.
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Chiusdino, Italy
These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.
Ravenna, Italy
Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.
Monselice, Italy
This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.
Florence, Italy
This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.
Poggioreale, Italy
This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.
Riomaggiore, Italy
A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.
Siena, Italy
Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.
Rome, Italy
This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.
Venice, Italy
This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Tremosine, Italy
This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.
Rome, Italy
One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.
Atessa, Italy
A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.
Bologna, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.
Castelnovo ne' Monti, Italy
An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.
Pozzuoli, Italy
A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.
Orvieto, Italy
This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.
Vagli Sopra, Italy
This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.
Lido, Italy
The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Bologna, Italy
An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.
Italy
A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.
Rome, Italy
A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.
Bologna, Italy
An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.