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

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

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

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

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

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

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

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

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

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

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