Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

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

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.