The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

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

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

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

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

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

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

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

The gravestone of a famous poet features a fittingly poetic epitaph chosen by the writer himself.

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

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

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

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.