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

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

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

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

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

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

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

Venice's island of the dead.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."