An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.