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

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.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

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

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

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

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

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

The people of Padua pledged to construct this church if the city was spared from destruction during World War I.

A twisted steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center is the centerpiece of this memorial for those who died on September 11, 2001.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."

In medieval times this small stone seat was used as a bizarre way to punish insolvent debtors.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

The tomb of the mythological founder of Padua is not hidden in some obscure crypt, but stands right in the middle of the city square.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

This old medieval prison tower has been a site of astronomical research for more than 250 years.

One of the largest squares in Europe contains an entire artificial island.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

This impressive mural is just one amazing artwork on the walls of a data center in Padua.