These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

The former atelier of Mario Cassisa is a treasure trove of paintings, sculptures, and artist books.

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

Every Easter, a small Sicilian town builds a stunning cathedral out of bread.

This constantly evolving art space saved an Italian town from its own crippling reputation.