According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

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