An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

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

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

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

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

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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

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

The middle finger of modernity.