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

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

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.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

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

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

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

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

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

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

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

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.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

First founded in 1472, this is the oldest bank in the world. Its history may explain why we call financial institutions "banks."

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

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

A blend of nature and art awaits visitors to this park.

A fortified medieval basilica on the Caelian Hill preserves extraordinary frescoes and one of Rome's most beautiful hidden cloisters.