The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

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

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

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

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

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

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

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

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

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

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.