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

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

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

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

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

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

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

Venice's island of the dead.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

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

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

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