Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

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

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 middle finger of modernity.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

The intricate geometry inside this Baroque-style dome was designed to create "terror of the human soul."

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

Auguste Maïcon, a pioneer in French aviation, was born in this house in 1891.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

Artist's eccentric property excessively decorated with found objects and work of his own.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

The construction of a tram line unveiled hidden remnants of the old medieval city.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.