Naples, Italy
Via dei Presepi
Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.
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Naples, Italy
Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.
Rome, Italy
An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.
Rome, Italy
This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.
Rome, Italy
The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.
Lido, Italy
Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.
Florence, Italy
An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.
Vagli Sopra, Italy
This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.
Milan, Italy
Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.
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Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.
Venice, Italy
Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.
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
Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.
Florence, Italy
This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.
Rome, Italy
The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.
Pramarzo, Italy
Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.
Rome, Italy
Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.
Venice, Italy
Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.
Naples, Italy
An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.
Isola San Giulio, Italy
A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.
Ravenna, Italy
Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.
Florence, Italy
The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.
Rome, Italy
This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.
Venice, Italy
The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."
Chiusdino, Italy
This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.