A larger-than-life house of cards stands outside the house of a former fashion designer.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

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

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

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

This historic streetcar system has been running since the 19th-century.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

A wunderkammer of curious objects and intriguing art nestled within a hub of ancient Roman sites.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

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

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.