The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

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

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

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

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

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

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

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

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

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

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.