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

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

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

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

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

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