Visitors threw $1.5 million into Rome's Trevi Fountain last year -- here's where all those coins go

Wikimedia Commons It's no novel idea to toss a coin into a fountain and make a wish, but there's something particularly romantic about doing so at the Trevi Fountain in Rome. The legend comes from the 1950s Academy Award-winning film "Three Coins in the Fountain": Throw a coin into the famed Fontana di Trevi, regarded as the most beautiful Baroque fountain in all of Italy, and you'll one day return to visit Rome. Toss in two more coins and you'll be met with new romance and, eventually, a beauti...