Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

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

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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