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

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

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

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

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

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

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.