Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

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

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

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

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

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

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

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

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

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 Mad."

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.