A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

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

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

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

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

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 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.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.