The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

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

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

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

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

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

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

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

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

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

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

Venice's island of the dead.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

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

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

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

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

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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