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

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

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

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.

A twisted steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center is the centerpiece of this memorial for those who died on September 11, 2001.

When occupying Nazi troops detonated a mine below, medieval frescoes were revealed in this small cliff-side hermitage.

Unscathed for almost 2,000 years, the best preserved Roman triumphal arch is in a small southern Italian city.

Church holding the preserved body of a levitating saint.

This museum located in Fondi is also said to be the most haunted building in town.

A monument to the migrants who cross the dangerous waters between North Africa and a tiny Italian island.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

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

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.