A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Rome is now home to a stunning food museum and library.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

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

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

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

A rather vulgar example of the transition from Latin to the Italian vernacular.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

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

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The once-grand remains of this resort are slowly turning into the strange ruins of the future.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.