An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

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

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.

This former estate of a fascist leader is now a burnt out ruin leading to a system of secret tunnels.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.