Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

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

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

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Venice's island of the dead.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

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

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

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

The evocative ruins of a 1,000-year-old hill fort lie within a popular tiger reserve.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.