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The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

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

This sturdy, circular stronghold served as one of the forts that protected the Venetian Lagoon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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