This is the village of Manarola viewed from the trail that connects all five towns of the Cinque Terre on the Italian Riviera.

A classic picture of a canal in Venice.

I took this picture of the Ponte Vecchio in Florence while waiting in the two-hour line to see the Uffizi Gallery.

On the road to the Tuscan hilltown of San Gimignano. The town had 72 towers in medieval times, 14 of which remain today.

The ruins of the Imperial Forum and the Palatine in Rome are fun to wander around. These purple flowers grew everywhere.

Masks face the theater in the abandoned Roman town of Ostia Antica.