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

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

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

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

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

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

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

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

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

This deceiving white sand beach gets its brilliant hue from the chemical discharge of a nearby factory.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

All that is left of this medieval castle is two towers, both of which now display a visible tilt.

A rare example of an octagonal Catholic church.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."