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

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

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

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

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

One of the oldest still-working clocks in the world sits on an ancient tower.

The 1,000-year-old abbey is the birthplace of modern musical notation.

This uniquely designed bridge served as the city gate for Comacchio.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

Famous landmarks and structures from across Italy fill this miniature park.

This 2,000-year-old Doric bridge is still open to pedestrian traffic to this day.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

For decades, vendors have sold clothes once worn by American soldiers who stormed Italy in the 1940s.

This medieval city gate is now a blend of the past and the modern world.