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.

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.

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

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

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.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.