Venice's island of the dead.

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

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.