Riomaggiore, Italy
Via dell’Amore
A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.
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Riomaggiore, Italy
A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.
Vernazza, Italy
Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
Monterosso al Mare, Italy
The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.
Genoa, Italy
This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.
Pisa, Italy
The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.
Lucca, Italy
Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.
Lucca, Italy
This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.
Venice, Italy
A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.
Venice, Italy
Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.
Venice, Italy
This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Venice, Italy
Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.
Bolzano, Italy
Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.
Milan, Italy
Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.
Varenna, Italy
An unusual resting place built into the hill with an amazing view of Lake Como.
Como, Italy
Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.
Lanzo D'intelvi, Italy
The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.
Bodio, Switzerland
The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.
Naters, Switzerland
This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.
Saas-Almagell, Switzerland
The only tower of an aerial tramway standing over a ski-lift.
Lausanne, Switzerland
Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.