Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

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

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.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.