An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

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

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

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

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

Venice's island of the dead.

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

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

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

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

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

Sturdy scales are a surprising thing to find in a modern European city.

One of the most notable figures in the Wurstelprater’s history is often assumed to be a fictional character.

A monument dedicated to a lone, brave invader.