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

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

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

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

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The middle finger of modernity.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

When this 400-year-old fountain fell into disrepair, officials covered the mess up with what looks like a giant soup tureen.

Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.