Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

An iron dragon with a long neck covered in feathery scales perched above one of Venice's most popular squares.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

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

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

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

Venice's island of the dead.

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

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.

One of the tallest bell towers in Italy plays a particular melody at just two times each day.

This medieval castle was reconstructed by Carlo Scarpa.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.