This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

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

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

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

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

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

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

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

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

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.