The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.

One of the highest mountain passes in Europe has been ranked among the best driving roads in the world.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

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

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

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

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

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

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.