One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

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

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

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

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

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

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

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

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

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

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

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

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Abandoned medieval hill town.