This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

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

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

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.

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.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

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

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.