For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

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

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

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Enjoy egg rolls and live music in a converted bank vault.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!