In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

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

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

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

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

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

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

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

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.