A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

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

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.