Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

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

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

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

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

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

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

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

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.