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.

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

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

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

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

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

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