A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

This medieval city gate is now a blend of the past and the modern world.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, greets pedestrians between these narrow city streets.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This hidden alley near the location of Rome's first theater was the site of a curious miracle.

A small but very fascinating fountain in the center of Rome with four books and a deer carved.

An 18th-century post box used to alert the church of sick and ailing foreign pilgrims.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

A statue representing a lost Roman profession that was vandalized for centuries.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

A deep mark on the remains of a Roman temple, believed to be left by a legendary warrior.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

Plaques on its facade commemorate the Tiber's most destructive deluges.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.