More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

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

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

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

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

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

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

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

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

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

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.