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

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

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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

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

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

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

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

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

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

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

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

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.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.