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Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

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

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

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

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.