Venice's island of the dead.

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

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

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

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The middle finger of modernity.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."