Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

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

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

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

A local legend says the theft of a holy relic explains the hand-shaped bloodstain on the facade of this cathedral.