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.

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

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

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.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

A meditative walk up 353 stairs leads to a majestic white Buddha overlooking Pai.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

Glasgow's memorial to the International Brigade volunteers from Great Britain who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War.