In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

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

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

The middle finger of modernity.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

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

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

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

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