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

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

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

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

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

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

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

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

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

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

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

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

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

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Venice's island of the dead.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.