Poggioreale, Italy
Ruins of Poggioreale
This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.
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Poggioreale, Italy
This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.
Alberobello, Italy
Southern Italy's spinning top village.
Marostica, Italy
Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.
Riomaggiore, Italy
A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.
Naples, Italy
A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.
Pozzuoli, Italy
A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.
Florence, Italy
This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.
Rome, Italy
This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Syracuse, Italy
Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.
Stromboli, Italy
A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.
Monterosso al Mare, Italy
The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.
Florence, Italy
This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.
Capalbio, Italy
Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Rome, Italy
Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.
Belpasso, Italy
The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Siena, Italy
A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
Florence, Italy
Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.
San Gimignano, Italy
These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.
Rome, Italy
This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.
Rome, Italy
Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.