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Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Tiny silver and copper fish set inside blue-green lights are like windows to the underwater world.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

Some people believe that this makeshift space monitoring station received transmissions from clandestine cosmonauts.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

Europe's simulation of the Martian surface uses soil from Mount Vesuvius.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.

The intricate geometry inside this Baroque-style dome was designed to create "terror of the human soul."

A landmark in the history of technology and computing is hidden in a tiny Baroque chapel.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

This building was designed to celebrate Italy's victory in World War I.

The only Malaysian food truck in Italy slings tangy chicken satay that even Italians love.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

See every month of the year personified at this opulent Turinese fountain.

A portrayal of two lamps embraced and in love.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

This Art Nouveau mansion was used as the "House of the Screaming Child" in Dario Argento’s giallo classic.

Made of 41,900 pieces of mosaic, it took two years to piece together this giant egg.