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ellentravelstheworld

Triathlete & travel nut. My main travel goal is to visit 50 plus countries/territories (38). I am enjoying keeping busy with domestic road trips to interesting oddities in the meantime. Especially interested in abandoned places and prisons.

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Ponte delle Tette

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

StepYoshi

Added by StepYoshi

Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs

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

matthiasheinrich

Added by matthiasheinrich

Peggy Guggenheim's Grave

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

Lazzaretto Vecchio

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

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

San Lazzaro degli Armeni

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

matthiasheinrich

Added by matthiasheinrich

Squero di San Trovaso

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

Added by Kavya Ram Mohan

Torcello

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

Added by mgtd1953

Reliquaries of St Mark's Basilica Treasury

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

Added by zackofalltrades

Scuola Grande di San Marco

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

icysedgwick

Added by icysedgwick

San Giorgio in Alga

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Piraeus Lion

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

Added by mpwestfall

Palazzo Dario

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

Melanie Xulu

Added by Melanie Xulu

'Dragon Bones' of Santa Maria e San Donato

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

Joel Cusumano

Added by Joel Cusumano

Ponte dei Pugni (Bridge of Fists)

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

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Tomb of Antonio Canova

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

matthiasheinrich

Added by matthiasheinrich

Lazzaretto Nuovo

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

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Scala Contarini del Bovolo

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

matthiasheinrich

Added by matthiasheinrich

San Servolo Insane Asylum Museum

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

The Flooded Crypt of San Zaccaria

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

Added by zackofalltrades

The Mad Colored Houses of Burano

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

Added by laurajok

Gennarino Scugnizzo

This bronze boy sits on one of Capri's rocky cliffs, waving at the passing boats.

Added by rbarron2

Arco Naturale (Natural Arch)

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

StepYoshi

Added by StepYoshi

Villa Jovis

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

emdrichardson

Added by emdrichardson

Domus Sanctae Marthae

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

Added by cinapelayo