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

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

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

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

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

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

The middle finger of modernity.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

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

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.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

The roof of this ancient mausoleum is made from a single Istrian stone weighing a massive 230 tons.

A medieval, mosaic-lined baptistry built by a heretical Christian sect.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.