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

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

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

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

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

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.