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

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

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

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

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

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

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

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

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

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

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

Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more.

A reconstruction of a classic mansion on the island of Delos was designed for a historian and archaeologist.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

This plaza is home to a number of works, including Montpellier‘s own Arc de Triomphe.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.