The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

The mysterious “claw marks” said to be left by the Devil on Pisa’s famous cathedral.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

The charred, dead skeleton of an oak tree is said to have consoled a dying 16th-century Italian poet.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

Believed to be the remains of the lost Temple of Minerva, this nymphaeum has been known by its misnomer to this day.

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

The hippo that stands on this university campus was once a drunken flea market purchase.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

Get in line for Lisbon’s most famous sandwich.

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