A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.

This Renaissance palace features a unique architectural design and is now home to the Ferrara National Art Gallery.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Three underground crypts and a pointed arch under the bell tower make this cathedral unique among Romanesque churches.

Nobles would stage mock naval battles on this large lake at the Royal Palace of Caserta.

Famous landmarks and structures from across Italy fill this miniature park.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

A striking memorial recalls thousands of Bolognese men and women killed fighting fascists in World War II.

A rare example of an octagonal Catholic church.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

A long-buried ancient ruin unearthed right in the middle of the city.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

Two planes stand abandoned after the closure of an aircraft-themed restaurant.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.