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

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

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

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.