Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

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

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

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

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."