This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

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

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

Venice's island of the dead.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

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

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

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

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."