An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Venice's island of the dead.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

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

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.