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

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.

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

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

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

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

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

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.