Places Edited by kblackwood

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

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.