A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

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

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

A monumental fountain in Rome features a large statue of Moses that has been criticized for centuries.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.