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A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

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

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

Venice's island of the dead.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

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

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.