The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

The world's oldest continuously operating record shop has been in Cardiff since 1894.

The painting on an aptly named street honors the 1980s slasher movie.

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

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

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.

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

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

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A genius of the art of juggling is buried here.

Acrosticism and palindromes on this randomly placed stone.