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

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

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

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

The middle finger of modernity.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

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

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

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

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

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

Once an ancient Roman bath, now a hotbed of geothermal energy and a hub for energetic innovations.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.