In the foothills of the lesser Caucasus, a centuries-old fortress still stands.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

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.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

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

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

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

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

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

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

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.