A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

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

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

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.

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

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

Venice's island of the dead.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.