Florence, Italy
The Bull of Santa Maria del Fiore
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Florence, Italy
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Florence, Italy
This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.
Florence, Italy
In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.
Florence, Italy
Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.
Langhirano, Italy
Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.
Turin, Italy
The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.
Turin, Italy
A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.
San Fruttuoso, Italy
A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.
Gaiano, Italy
A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.
Genoa, Italy
A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.
Solferino, Italy
The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.
Varese, Italy
A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.
Milan, Italy
Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.
Milan, Italy
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
Milan, Italy
Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.
Milan, Italy
Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.
Milan, Italy
The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.
Milan, Italy
Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.
Pavia, Italy
This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.
Pavia, Italy
What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?
Pavia, Italy
A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...
Vigevano, Italy
The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.
Ostermundigen, Switzerland
This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.