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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The ruins of a 19th-century mill are hidden along a greenway in a prominent Charlotte neighborhood.

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).

From horses to stainless-steel trucks, this iconic Providence burger wagon is one of the oldest mobile diners in the country.

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.