An ode to the washerwomen who called Pavia home.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

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

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

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

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

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.