Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

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

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

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

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

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

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

This park on the outskirts of Rome boasts two ancient Roman aqueducts and a medieval tower.

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.