A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

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

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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

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

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

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

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

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

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.