The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

A unique Tuscan hideaway acts as an art mecca as well as a hotel.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

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

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

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

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.