Vernazza, Italy
Chapel of Santa Marta, Vernazza
This tiny chapel withstood a massive mudslide and flash flood.
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Vernazza, Italy
This tiny chapel withstood a massive mudslide and flash flood.
Vernazza, Italy
Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
Rimini, Italy
This 2,000-year-old Doric bridge is still open to pedestrian traffic to this day.
San Marino, San Marino
High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.
Pompeii, Italy
Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.
Pompeii, Italy
This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Vatican City
Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.
Vatican City
This equestrian statue of Constantine the Great has been the subject of criticism for centuries.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Rome, Italy
This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.
Rome, Italy
This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.
Rome, Italy
Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.
Rome, Italy
This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Athens, Greece
An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.
Athens, Greece
This Byzantine Church was moved from Paris to Athens block by block.
Athens, Greece
A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Athens, Greece
Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.
Athens, Greece
A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.
Athens, Greece
The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.