Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

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

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.

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

A strange-looking 18th-century tower sits on a tiny islet just off Livorno.

This Tuscan church contains a gallery of over 700 ex-votos depicting near-death experiences.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

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...

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

An ode to the washerwomen who called Pavia home.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

The entire known universe of the ancient Etruscans is held inside this bronze model of a sheep’s liver.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

A beautiful chapel on the hills of the Oltrepò Pavese claims to house the tomb of King Edward II of England.