Places vmhenshaw Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

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

The only known mosaic depicting the Greek god of sleep, Hypnos.

This memorial to local World War II heroes is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This virtually windowless mass of smooth concrete is the only Catholic church in the city.

Its frescoes depict the likeness of Marshal Tito, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels burning in hell.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

This World War I fortress is the perfect place to catch a Montenegrin sunset.

One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.