Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

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

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

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

The roof of this ancient mausoleum is made from a single Istrian stone weighing a massive 230 tons.

A medieval, mosaic-lined baptistry built by a heretical Christian sect.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

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

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.