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The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

Venice's island of the dead.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

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

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

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

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

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