Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

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

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

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.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

This beautiful 150-year-old synagogue survived Italy's fascist period and the Second World War.