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.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.