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

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

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

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

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

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

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

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.