Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

The jewel of the museum is a rare tumulus, a funeral decoration from the 18th century.

The spectacular history of spectacles on display.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.