This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

This sturdy, circular stronghold served as one of the forts that protected the Venetian Lagoon.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

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

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

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

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

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

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

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

This landmark jazz venue is the oldest continuously running African-American club in the United States.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.