This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

Ernest Hemingway was the first to sign this colorful wall covered in thousands of celebrity signatures.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

The steel cable lets adventurers zoom between two mountain towns at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

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

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

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

Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.

The city of Palestrina was built around this magnificent terraced sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Fortuna.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

A unique Tuscan hideaway acts as an art mecca as well as a hotel.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

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