An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

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

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

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

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

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

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This basilica is dedicated to two saints, one of which is known more for his famous quote.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

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

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

Hidden within this iconic mountain are a set of World War II bunkers once used by German forces.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.