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

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.

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

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

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.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This hidden alley near the location of Rome's first theater was the site of a curious miracle.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

This equestrian statue of Constantine the Great has been the subject of criticism for centuries.