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

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

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

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

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

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 strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

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

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

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

A local remembrance for lives lost—a poppy for each—in war more than 100 years ago.

Step into Narnia at this small park featuring statues from "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."