A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

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

Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

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

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

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

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

This garden among the Florentine hills is complete with a meditation path and works of poetry.

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

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

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

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.