Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

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

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

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

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.