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.

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

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

The middle finger of modernity.

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

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.

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

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Plaques on its facade commemorate the Tiber's most destructive deluges.

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

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.