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

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

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

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

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

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

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

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

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

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.