A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A magnificent Neogothic tomb hides within this Italian fairytale-like forest.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

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

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

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

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

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

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 middle finger of modernity.

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