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

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

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

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

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

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Venice's island of the dead.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

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

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