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

An iron dragon with a long neck covered in feathery scales perched above one of Venice's most popular squares.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

This structure was moved nearly 40 feet while people continued working inside it.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.