Just across from the "Last Supper" painting is the famous painter's vineyard, a gift received for creating the masterpiece.

Invented in the mid-19th century, this machine could send copied images via telegraph lines.

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

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

A museum entirely dedicated to Bergamo’s tradition of puppetry.

If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.

Six paintings reminding you that death is integral part of everyday life.

The walls of this tiny Italian church are entirely covered with frescoes.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Hundreds of Roman amphorae are stored in an ususpecting underground parking lot.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

This beautiful 150-year-old synagogue survived Italy's fascist period and the Second World War.

One of the earliest depictions of an Arthurian scene that is shrouded in mystery.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

The only Shinto shrine in Europe that has been officially sanctioned by Japan.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

Legend has it that any woman who kissed this statue would soon be married.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

A medieval, mosaic-lined baptistry built by a heretical Christian sect.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.