A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

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

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

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

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

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

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

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