An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.