Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

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

Things seem to roll, flow and run uphill on this short patch of road near Ariccia, Italy.

A sudden, striking cluster of hills south of Padua has been attracting visitors for centuries.

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

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

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

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

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

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

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

Southern Italy's spinning top village.