The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.

This 21st century cabinet of curiosities includes dinosaur bones, moon rocks, film memorabilia, and more.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

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

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

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

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

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

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

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.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."