The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

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

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

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

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

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Venice's island of the dead.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

A small island in Lake Garda that was used as a burial site, pirate hideout, and a monastery.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

This medieval castle was home to a known tyrant and features several hidden passages.