This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

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

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

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

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

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

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.