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

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

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

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

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

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

For hundreds of years, this huge figure has been blessing visitors before they explore his body.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

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

Just across from the "Last Supper" painting is the famous painter's vineyard, a gift received for creating the masterpiece.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.