Places Maddy Wants to Go

This mechanical marvel is a 24-hour cheese vending machine, holding freshly made cheeses from the internationally acclaimed Perrystead Dairy.

What started as a display of antique hearses has grown into a museum exploring the history of the funeral industry.

One of the largest collections of holy relics in the country.

Florence’s archaeological museum displays an ordinary stool that once shattered one of its most prized artifacts.

An intact, still operating pharmacy from the 18th-century filled with numerous artifacts and paintings.

Beautifully decorated tarot cards from the Middle Ages.

Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

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

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

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

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