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

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

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

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

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

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

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

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.