This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

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

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

Devilish masks, handicrafts, and pieces of old buildings create a snapshot of life in a historic Alpine region.

This splendid tomb may look fantastic, but there's nothing in it...

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.