This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

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

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

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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

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

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

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

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

The people of Padua pledged to construct this church if the city was spared from destruction during World War I.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

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

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

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

The first statue to be added to Saint Peter's Square in over 350 years is an ode to migrants and refugees around the world.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

A 15th-century monumental Latin inscription on this house celebrates Lorenzo Manilio's love for Rome.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.