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Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

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

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

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

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.