This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

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

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

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

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

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

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

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

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

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

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

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

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.