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

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

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

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

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 one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

A cone-shaped top and cylindrical body set this 900-year-old structure apart from other Italian bell towers.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

The walls of this medieval church are covered with perfectly preserved frescos, including a pristine example of the Dance of Death.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.