An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

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

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

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

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

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

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

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

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.