This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

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

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

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

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

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

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

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

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

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.