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Once known for its horse-powered knife sharpening, this 200-year-old shop offers an array of blades and hard-to-find culinary tools.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

These pools have been abandoned for over 20 years.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

The world's first underwater farm is home to more than 700 plants.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

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

A beautiful discovery site of prehistoric burials.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.

An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.