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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.