Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Get buzzed beholding one of the world's largest coffee-machine collections, then step into the café for a specially brewed cup.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

This camera store in Milan holds one of Europe’s largest collections of luxury-antique cameras.

Invented in the mid-19th century, this machine could send copied images via telegraph lines.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

Just across from the "Last Supper" painting is the famous painter's vineyard, a gift received for creating the masterpiece.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

A seaside castle complex that stood through centuries of conquests.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.