A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

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

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

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

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

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 oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The middle finger of modernity.

These four fountains are said to have healing properties, with a glass of the 'miracle' water being given to Louis XII of France.

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

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

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