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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.