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

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

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

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

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

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The roof of this ancient mausoleum is made from a single Istrian stone weighing a massive 230 tons.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

A medieval, mosaic-lined baptistry built by a heretical Christian sect.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

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

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

An intact, still operating pharmacy from the 18th-century filled with numerous artifacts and paintings.

This Renaissance square was at the center of Leonardo da Vinci's map, the first ichnographic ever.