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

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

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

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

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

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

An unusual resting place built into the hill with an amazing view of Lake Como.

For hundreds of years, this huge figure has been blessing visitors before they explore his body.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.