A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

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.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

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

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

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.