Siena, Italy
Museo Anatomico at University of Siena
Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.
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Siena, Italy
Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.
San Gimignano, Italy
Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.
Reggello, Italy
On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.
Lucca, Italy
The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Volterra, Italy
Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.
Siena, Italy
A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Florence, Italy
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Madrid, Spain
Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.
Florence, Italy
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Barcelona, Spain
Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.
Barcelona, Spain
This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.
Barcelona, Spain
18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.
Ambite, Spain
An outsider folly near Madrid.
Madrid, Spain
Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.
Florence, Italy
The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.