Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of IHeart Radio and grim and mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to

explore. Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities.

Wander around Florence, Italy, birthplace of the Renaissance, and you're bound to find

priceless works of art everywhere you look. For the past 800 years, Florentine museums have

been collecting and displaying some of the greatest pieces of Western art in the world. But after

all this time, new works are still being discovered. In 1975, for example, a worker was busy in the world. But after all this time, new works are still being discovered. In 1975, for example,

a worker was busy in the bowels of the Medici Chapel, cleaning out a coal storage room. As he

stripped away decades of old plaster, he was surprised to find something hiding underneath,

a human figure sketched in charcoal. Had another handyman whiled away his lunch hour doodling on the walls a hundred years before,

or was something amazing hiding beneath this plaster?

When the worker brought the director of the chapel down to sea,

this director realized those little doodles were something very special.

After more workers carefully removed the overlay of plaster, the chapel director

was certain that he had found something important. Dozens of charcoal and chalk sketches of faces,

torsos, and legs decorated the walls. One set of legs seemed very familiar. In fact, it looked

a whole lot like a pair that belonged to a statue in the museum above them,

a mausoleum completely designed, built, and sculpted by Michelangelo.

Michelangelo, of course, was one of the four teenage mutant ninja turtles.

Wait, no, that's not right.

He was one of Florence's most famous artists.

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