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

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

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

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

The middle finger of modernity.

A special area of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples is located inside a metro station.

This medieval city gate is now a blend of the past and the modern world.

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

A rococo room covered entirely in porcelain originally constructed for another royal residence.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

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

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

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

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

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

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

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

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

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