Milan

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

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

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

See what remains of a once grand ancient Roman circus.

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

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

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

This small Milan street is filled with colorful homes and a rich history.

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

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

Get buzzed beholding one of the world's largest coffee-machine collections, then step into the café for a specially brewed cup.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

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

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

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...

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

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