Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

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.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

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

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The middle finger of modernity.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

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

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

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

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.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.