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The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

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

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

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

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

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