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

Roman-era ships unearthed...

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

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

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

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

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

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

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

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

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

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

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

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

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

Venice's island of the dead.

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

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.