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The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

This artistic temple brings together multiple architecture styles, but is only an example of one.

A sudden, striking cluster of hills south of Padua has been attracting visitors for centuries.

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

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

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

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

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

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

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Venice's island of the dead.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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.

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

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

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

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

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."