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

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

The middle finger of modernity.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

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

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

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

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

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

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