The enigmatic sculpture hides above an escalator in a Milan metro station.

A founding document of the European Union was written on an island where Roman emperors once banished women.

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

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

An unsettling painting of three faceless sisters that is surrounded by history and legend.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.

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

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

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

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.