This fortress was built using the last surviving stones from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

Venice's island of the dead.

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

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

The first passenger cable car in the world.

These unique "earth pyramid" clay columns can be found in ravines around the village of Tirolo.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

This war memorial holds the remains of around 20,000 World War I soldiers from both sides of the conflict.

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

This sculpture of a rhinoceros suspended above a city square is meant to evoke the weight of the human condition.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

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

Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.