Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

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

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

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

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

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

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

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

The middle finger of modernity.

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

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

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

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

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

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.