Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

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

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

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

The middle finger of modernity.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

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

A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

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.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

Plaques on its facade commemorate the Tiber's most destructive deluges.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

Among the busts of heroes of the Roman Republic of 1849, there is also a statue of a boy and his dog.

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

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.