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

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.

This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

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

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Just across from the "Last Supper" painting is the famous painter's vineyard, a gift received for creating the masterpiece.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

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

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.