Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

The middle finger of modernity.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.