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

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

Venice's island of the dead.

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

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

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

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

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.