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

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

The mysterious “claw marks” said to be left by the Devil on Pisa’s famous cathedral.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

Stop by to view a fleet of handmade kayaks, all modeled on traditional Arctic hunting vessels.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

A public library display of fossils from the ice age.

A mass of iron named for the fire-dwelling mythological amphibian sits alongside the first west coast iron furnace.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.