Places Lillive Wants to Go

This magenta statue commemorates the legendary marriage between a mermaid and the city's founder.

Two standing giants remain as a tribute to Luxembourg's metallurgical past.

In the heart of Luxembourg's "little Switzerland" weaves a breathtaking natural sandstone canyon with a mythological past.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

This Luxembourg cave is covered in cryptic looking marks left by mining activity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Venice's island of the dead.