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

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.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

A piece of baseball history is preserved in a Pittsburgh parking lot.

An outlet for connecting to memories of lost loved ones and saying goodbyes you never got to say.

A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

An imposing pair of sphinxes stand guard outside this Egyptian Revival tomb.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

A private residence adorned with a gorgeous mural dedicated to the buzzing insect.

This plaque marks a place where one of Hollywood’s most famous dancers got his start.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

Pittsburgh's literal underground railroad.

One Pittsburgh musician's decades-in-the-making memorabilia collection is on display at this rock-n-roll curio shop.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.