The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

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

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.