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An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

The massive steel ring looks like it could be China’s first Stargate.

The Greek War of Independence was declared at this medieval Byzantine sanctuary.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

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

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

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

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

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

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

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

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