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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The middle finger of modernity.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

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

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

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

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

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

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.