340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

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

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

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

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

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

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

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

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.

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

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.