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

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

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

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

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

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

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

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

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

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

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

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

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.