A place of remembrance for the Prime Minister that met a violent end.

An archway adorned with vulnerable flora and fauna.

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

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

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

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

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

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.

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

Venice's island of the dead.

Sleep in the hay, spin the wheel and eat grain pellets to your heart's delight.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

A massively oversized measuring tape sculpture sits inside a hidden yard.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

You will not be able to miss this building.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

Once the last route taken by condemned prisoners.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

When King Oswald was killed in battle, an eagle dropped his arm here creating a new spring.

A small village in two different countries.