Verona, Italy
Juliet's Balcony
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
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Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Verona, Italy
Not far from the more famous House of Juliet, visitors will find the supposed residence of her lover.
Comacchio, Italy
This uniquely designed bridge served as the city gate for Comacchio.
Fregona, Italy
These caves are home to a small church and were used to age cheese.
Vicenza, Italy
A memorial to the Vicentine who survived and documented Magellan's circumnavigation of the world.
Padua, Italy
One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.
Padua, Italy
The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."
Padua, Italy
The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.
Treviso, Italy
Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.
Chioggia, Italy
One of the oldest still-working clocks in the world sits on an ancient tower.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Venice, Italy
The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."
Lido, Italy
The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.
Lido, Italy
Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.
Lido, Italy
Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Venice, Italy
Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.
Venice, Italy
This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.
Venice, Italy
Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Venice, Italy
This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.