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

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

These bronze horses on the gates of the Royal Palace of Naples were a gift from a Russian tsar.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

An abandoned building that once tightened a power line that stretched across Messina Strait.

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

Workers have collected salt here in a process virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

A scenic UNESCO site that doubles as a habitat for various forms of wildlife.

A unique interactive experience of everyday life in communist Yugoslavia—a very different time in Croatian history.

This armored vehicle was built in the local shipyard for use by the defenders of Dubrovnik.

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

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

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

The Adriatic's most famous wind can be reliably experienced in the city's Marina.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

Split's smallest church, and one of its oldest, has been reconstructed inside the city's Roman walls.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.