Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

For 200 years, people have flocked to this Polish town to experience the healing powers of salt.

An early 20th-century school building whose clock tower and carved symbols quietly tell the story of the trades once taught inside.

This ex-prison dates back to the Middle Ages.

It’s a painted window that looks completely real, hiding on a building in the market square.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

This fairytale medieval church in Poland originally spent centuries in Norway.

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

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

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

This Renaissance square was at the center of Leonardo da Vinci's map, the first ichnographic ever.

The location where a famous medieval knight was murdered.

This castle was once the home of one of the most powerful women of the Renaissance.

Since the 1960s, this small village has invited painters to decorate its walls.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

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

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

The middle finger of modernity.

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

Leonardo da Vinci was one of many to find inspiration in this unique, rocky landscape in Tuscany.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.