The spooky story begins at a mass grave discovered on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo, a location used as a bubonic plague quarantine in the late 1500s and 1600s. In 2006, archeological ...

In Venice's shallow, brackish lagoon, small sandy islands can form from even slight disturbances to the swirl of the currents. It takes so little for the tides to form a new island that residents ...