Fontana Pretoria, Palermo

Francesco Camilliani carved this tiered marble fountain in Florence in the mid-1550s for a private garden, and the city of Palermo bought it in the 1570s, shipped it to Sicily in pieces and rebuilt it in the Piazza Pretoria. Ringed by balustrades, stairways and dozens of nude gods, nymphs and river figures, it earned the nickname Fontana della Vergogna, the Fountain of Shame. The name stuck, and it is still how many locals point visitors to it.