100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

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

Venice's island of the dead.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.

This center tells the story of one of the most famous battles in Irish history.

The ruins of a sixth-century monastery sit on the banks of the River Shannon.

The ruins of a monastery that dates to the 7th century.

This Neolithic passage tomb forms part of a World Heritage Site.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

This natural sea arch highlights Ireland's rugged coastal beauty.

The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.