A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

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

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

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

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.