An Italian hillside ghost town.

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

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

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

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The middle finger of modernity.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient Roman religious cult contains an exquisite traditional fresco.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

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

Southern Italy's spinning top village.