The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

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

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

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

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

An elegant church is home to a remarkably detailed mosaic floor depicting the Garden of Eden.

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

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

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

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

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.

Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."

The tomb of the mythological founder of Padua is not hidden in some obscure crypt, but stands right in the middle of the city square.

One of the largest squares in Europe contains an entire artificial island.

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

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