Riomaggiore, Italy
Via dell’Amore
A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.
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Riomaggiore, Italy
A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.
Syracuse, Italy
Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.
Consonno, Italy
This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Lido, Italy
Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.
Rome, Italy
A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.
Belpasso, Italy
The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Palermo, Italy
This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.
Vilminore di Scalve, Italy
The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.
Collodi, Italy
Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.
Sperlonga, Italy
The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.
Monte di Cuma, Italy
Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.
Lainate, Italy
An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.
Borgo Grotta Gigante, Italy
One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.
Canale Monterano, Italy
The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.
San Fruttuoso, Italy
A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.
Vagli Sopra, Italy
This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.
Orvieto, Italy
This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.
Milan, Italy
Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.
Melendugno, Italy
Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.
Rome, Italy
An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.
Marmore, Italy
Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.
Cefalù, Italy
Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."