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These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

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

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

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

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

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

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

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

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

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.