This small Milan street is filled with colorful homes and a rich history.

In the 1940s, Italian architect Mario Cavallè built a dozen of these round homes in northern Milan.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

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

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

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

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

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

This 2,000-year-old Doric bridge is still open to pedestrian traffic to this day.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

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

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.