The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

Featuring the last fully walkable parapet walkway in Europe.

The ruins of a medieval village that was abandoned after a 19th-century inferno.

The construction of a new church near Venosa was started in the 11th century, but never finished.

A former Roman town that was once the home of Scipio Africanus.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

Italy's third-largest Roman arena gives a peek into the underground operations beneath the ancient spectacles.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.

For centuries, this large Roman villa remained hidden thanks to the eruption that buried nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

The old church, buried by the 1784 Mount Vesuvius eruption, is a remarkably well-preserved place where people now pray for the souls of the dead.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

A beautifully well-preserved ancient Roman villa.

A small town lost in the mountains of southern Italy hosts the childhood home of one of the most famous saints of the 20th century.

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.