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Sciacca, Italy

Il Castello Incantato

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

Cinque Terre

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
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Padua, Italy

St. Anthony's Tongue

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.
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Vigevano, Italy

Cathedral of St. Ambrose

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.
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Bagheria, Italy

Villa Palagonia

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.
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Turin, Italy

Medieval Village

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.
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Bologna, Italy

Bologna Zoological Museum

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.
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Italy

The Abandoned Village of Leri Cavour

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

Phlegraean Fields

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.
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Pavia, Italy

The Museums of the University of Pavia

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...
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Florence, Italy

Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents)

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
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Triora, Italy

The Town Of Witches

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

Domus Aurea

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.
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Bologna, Italy

Saint Catherine of Bologna

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

Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra

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

The Dragon Rib of Atessa

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.
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Syracuse, Italy

Ear of Dionysius

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.
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Bologna, Italy

Bologna's Istituto di Anatomia Umana Normale

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.
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Bologna, Italy

Museo di Palazzo Poggi Anatomy & Obstetrics Collection

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.
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Genoa, Italy

Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.
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Monterosso al Mare, Italy

Il Gigante

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.
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Foligno, Italy

Calamita Cosmica

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.
Pompeii, Italy

The Brothels of Pompeii

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
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Siena, Italy

St. Catherine of Siena's Severed Head

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
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