A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

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

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

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

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

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

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

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

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

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

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

An unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.