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

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

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

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

At just 51 feet and 10 inches long, it's the shortest street in England.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.