Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

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

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

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

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

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

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

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

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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.