Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

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

One of the largest squares in Europe contains an entire artificial island.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

One of the tallest bell towers in Italy plays a particular melody at just two times each day.

This medieval castle was reconstructed by Carlo Scarpa.

Not far from the more famous House of Juliet, visitors will find the supposed residence of her lover.

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

Inspired by the more famous Scrovegni Chapel, Cappella di San Giovanni contains several amazing frescoes.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

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

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

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

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.