Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Venice's island of the dead.

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

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

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

Over 100 lasers, including huge ones that look straight off a sci-fi set.

The exit of the largest prisoner-of-war escape attempt on American soil during World War II.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.