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Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

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

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

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

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

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

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

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.