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

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

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

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

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

A gas station has taken the place of the home of the 19th American President.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

Three bronze deer sculptures relax along the Scioto Mile.

Just outside the Ohio Supreme Court sits a testament to justice.

The walls of the statehouse tell the story of Ohio’s prehistoric past.

A 2,000-year-old Adena burial mound located along a busy street in Columbus, Ohio.

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

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

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

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

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

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

World's largest Christmas store.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.