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

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

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

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.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Τhis feline monument commemorates fallen soldiers on a field that saw many, many battles.

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.