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

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

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

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

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

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

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

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

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.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

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

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

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

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

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.

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.