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

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

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.