A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

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 only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

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

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

The middle finger of modernity.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.