This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

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

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

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.