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

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

The abandoned ruins of a failed resort hide on this verdant, picture-perfect island.

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

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

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

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

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

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

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

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

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