The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

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

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

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

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

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.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

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

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.

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

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

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

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

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

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

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

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

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

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

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.