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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

An ancient Egyptian obelisk is now used to commemorate fallen Italian soldiers.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.