A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This medieval city gate is now a blend of the past and the modern world.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

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

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

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

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

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.