This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

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

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

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

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

Atop the former site of a historic bakery sit two stone tributes to Verona's contribution to traditional Italian baking.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

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

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Just across from the "Last Supper" painting is the famous painter's vineyard, a gift received for creating the masterpiece.

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.