Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

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

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

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

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

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

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

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.