Travel to Bridge of Sighs Venice

This gorgeous white-limestone bridge in Venice gets its name from an almost ironically bleak place: In the 1800s, the windows looking out from the enclosed bridge's interior were the last views of sublime Venice convicts would see before their imprisonment. The great Lord Byron was behind this distinctly Romantic (and not actually realistic) notion. Supposedly, couples who kiss on a gondola at sunset under the bridge as the bells of St Mark's Campanile ring will be granted eternal bliss.