
Outside: Beyond the Lens
A summer vacation to northern Italy includes Milan, Lake Como, Venice and Portofino.

A summer vacation to northern Italy includes Milan, Lake Como, Venice and Portofino.

Italy: Venice's art treasures and lagoon; glass in Murano; lace in Burano; Torcello.

Provence's Romanesque cities, hilltop towns and fishing ports.

Exploring Florida's West Coast, including hiking in the swamps to experience Florida's wildlife.

Monuments of Venice, Italy; cruising the Grand Canal; masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance.

A road trip to Grand Canyon National Park's North Rim captures rarely seen footage.

The Trastevere district's historic Jewish Ghetto; churches.

The Rhine flows through southwestern Germany.

A tragic story from World War II haunts the scenic landscapes of the Vosges Mountains.

Bernini statues; St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican; Roman dinner; romantic nightspots.

Rome's Colosseum and Pantheon; bike riding along the Appian Way; Roman engineering.

Footage of Austria in the winter and spring.

An aerial view of southern Italy from Rome, up the rugged coastline to Reggio Calabria.

Pisa y Lucca; a tipsy tower; Puccini.

Michelangelo's "David"; Botticelli's "Birth of Venus"; Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise."

The port of Messina, Palermo, vineyards, Mount Etna.

Matera, a city of caves; Francis Ford Coppola's hometown of Bernalda, Italy; clams; mozzarella.

From the Alps, travel through Lombardy, along the coast to Portofino, then inland.

Bologna, Italy; test driving a Lamborghini; making tortellini; Gelato University.

The restoration of the Duomo in Florence, Italy; Clet Abraham; historic boat trip on the Arno River.