The middle finger of modernity.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

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

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

Inside features a display of how artistic crucifixes transformed throughout the centuries.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Roman-era ships unearthed...

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

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

This equestrian statue of Constantine the Great has been the subject of criticism for centuries.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

A small cell adjacent to this church was once the bedroom for a renowned saint.