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

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

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

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

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

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

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

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

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

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

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.