Places stephlt25 Wants to Go

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

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

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

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

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

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

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

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The middle finger of modernity.

For one of Rome’s finest renditions of cacio e pepe, head straight to this osteria.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

A monumental fountain in Rome features a large statue of Moses that has been criticized for centuries.

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.