Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

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

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

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

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

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

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

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

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

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.