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

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

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 surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

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

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

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."