Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

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

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

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

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

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

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

This tiny chapel withstood a massive mudslide and flash flood.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Legend has it that this bronze orb, which sat atop an ancient Egyptian obelisk, once held the ashes of Julius Caesar.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

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

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.