This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

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

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

The middle finger of modernity.

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

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

A whimsical Renaissance fountain sculpture from Florence, world-renowned for defying convention.

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

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

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

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

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

A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

Where the people of Gozo have been doing laundry for more than six centuries.

This is one of the very few intact windmills built by the Knights of St. John in the island nation of Malta.

See Malta’s history through the recreation of scenes of torture using life-sized mannequins in a former medieval dungeon.

For over two centuries, this palace served as a residence for the Holy Roman Inquisition's leaders, a courthouse, and a prison.

These temples are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.

This almost-forgotten underground dungeon housed several convicts over the years, including Caravaggio.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.