This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.

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

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

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

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

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.