An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

A church made of steel.

Once a crime hotspot, this refurbished underpass is now home to a bookstore and a mural celebrating the history of Manila.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

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

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

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

Venice's island of the dead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

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

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

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

These elaborate gothic monuments honor Verona's medieval lords.