Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

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

Time has been frozen at this station since the bombing in 1980—or so it was believed.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

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

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

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

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

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

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

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

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

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

This 1st-century CE Roman bath sits under a carpark.

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

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

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

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

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