A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

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

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.