St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

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

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.