Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

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

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

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

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

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

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

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

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

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

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.