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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

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

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

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

Venice's island of the dead.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

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

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.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.