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

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

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

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The middle finger of modernity.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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