A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

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

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

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

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

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.

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

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

Venice's island of the dead.

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

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

A pink sandstone column once used in ancient times to measure one's belly after a night of debauchery.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

A remnant of the Franco-Prussian War, lodged in the city's walls.

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.