Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

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

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

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

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

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

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

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

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.