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

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

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

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

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

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

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.