As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The middle finger of modernity.