A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

A medieval, mosaic-lined baptistry built by a heretical Christian sect.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A striking memorial recalls thousands of Bolognese men and women killed fighting fascists in World War II.

A large statue of Pope Gregory XIII in Bologna was disguised as Saint Petronius to avoid destruction.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

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

After World War II, this former concentration camp in Northern Italy became a refuge for those displaced by the war.

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

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