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

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.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

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

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

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.

The remains of an ancient bathhouse sit inside this aptly-named pub.

This medieval church is not only notable for its architecture, but also its connection with LGBTQ+ history.

This sculpture marks the spot where one of the greatest Roman rulers was proclaimed emperor.

The final resting place of England's most notorious bandit.

The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.