An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

Rome is now home to a stunning food museum and library.

These hut foundations are believed to be the residence of Romulus, founder of Rome.

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

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

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

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

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

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

The remains of this 2nd-century Roman temple are incorporated into a modern building.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

A statue representing a lost Roman profession that was vandalized for centuries.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.