A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

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

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The middle finger of modernity.

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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.