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

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

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

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

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

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

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

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

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

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

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

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

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

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

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.