A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

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

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

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

The floating gallery illuminates the heart of Québec City's arts district.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

No building in the world leans as far as the so-called “Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi.”

Feed it cash, get your very own gold bar.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.