Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

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

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

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

This one-of-a-kind Roman arch is not actually dedicated to the god Janus.

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

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

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

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

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

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

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

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

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

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

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

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