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

This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.

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

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

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

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

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

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

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

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

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

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

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.