In the 1940s, Italian architect Mario Cavallè built a dozen of these round homes in northern Milan.

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

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

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

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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

This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

One of the tallest bell towers in Italy plays a particular melody at just two times each day.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

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

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 community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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

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

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

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

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

A large statue of Pope Gregory XIII in Bologna was disguised as Saint Petronius to avoid destruction.