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A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

The city of Palestrina was built around this magnificent terraced sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Fortuna.

A unique Tuscan hideaway acts as an art mecca as well as a hotel.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

The sunlight passing through the opening of this huge cave system creates a magical effect.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.