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

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

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

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.

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.

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?