Tomb of Lars Porsena

The tomb of the Etruscan king Lars Porsena (Mausoleo di Porsenna) is a legendary ancient building in what is now central Italy. Allegedly built around 500 BCE at Clusium (modern Chiusi, in south-eastern Tuscany), and was described as follows by the Roman writer Marcus Varro (116–27 BCE):

Destruction of the tomb
This structure, standing some 200 meters high, was supposedly destroyed along with Clusium itself in 89 BCE by the Roman general Cornelius Sulla. No trace of it has ever been found, and historians have generally regarded Varro’s account as a gross exaggeration at best, and downright fabrication at worst.

In the 18th century Angelo Cortenovis proposed that the tomb of Lars Porsena was a machine for conducting lightning.