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

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

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

A small cell adjacent to this church was once the bedroom for a renowned saint.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.