A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.