Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Leonardo da Vinci was one of many to find inspiration in this unique, rocky landscape in Tuscany.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

This garden among the Florentine hills is complete with a meditation path and works of poetry.

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

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

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

A local legend says the theft of a holy relic explains the hand-shaped bloodstain on the facade of this cathedral.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

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

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Florence’s archaeological museum displays an ordinary stool that once shattered one of its most prized artifacts.

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

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

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 oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.