Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This tiny, charming synagogue in the Cayman Islands was built by a man as a present for his Jewish wife.

A glowing underwater cliff attracts marine life and divers in equal measure.

One of just five sand-floor Jewish synagogues in the world.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.