Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

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

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

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

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

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

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.