Florence, Italy
Dante's Dagger
A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.
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Florence, Italy
A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.
Marostica, Italy
Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.
Rome, Italy
Roman-era ships unearthed...
Padua, Italy
The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."
Langhirano, Italy
Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.
Tropea, Italy
A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."
Stromboli, Italy
A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.
Palermo, Italy
This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.
Perca, Italy
These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.
Milan, Italy
The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.
Turin, Italy
A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.
Milan, Italy
Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.
Venice, Italy
A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.
Matera, Italy
People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.
Alberobello, Italy
Southern Italy's spinning top village.
Noasca, Italy
This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.
Rome, Italy
Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.
Varese, Italy
A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.
Realmonte, Italy
"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.
Vilminore di Scalve, Italy
The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.
Naples, Italy
This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.
Belpasso, Italy
The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.
San Gimignano, Italy
Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.
Capalbio, Italy
Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.