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

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

Venice's island of the dead.

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

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

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.

One of the largest squares in Europe contains an entire artificial island.

In medieval times this small stone seat was used as a bizarre way to punish insolvent debtors.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

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

Known as "Toronto's Flatiron."

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

An enigmatic concrete structure in a lakeside Toronto park raises more questions than answers.

This sculpture was made in 1973 for the city's 300th-anniversary celebrations and was largely considered an eyesore at the time.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.