Italy's "New Mountain" rose from the ground in a volcanic eruption in 1538.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Gorgeous views of Italian mountains and valleys form the backdrop of this unique open-air theater.

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

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

The 1,000-year-old abbey is the birthplace of modern musical notation.

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.