A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

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.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Ernest Hemingway was the first to sign this colorful wall covered in thousands of celebrity signatures.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.