Cathedral

The initials "GW" mark where one of Scotland's most important Protestant martyrs was burned at the stake.

Twenty carved heads in Glasgow take a comical, modern twist to the medieval apotropaic, avenger of evil.

According to a gruesome legend, an architect sacrificed his wife to build this spectacular, 16th-century cathedral.

This gate served as a small lock-up jail in the 14th century.

Northern Kentucky’s very own Notre Dame showcases intricate stained glass and the bones of saints.

A bronze statue of a low three-legged seat commemorates a piece of furniture that started a riot.

Four hundred years ago, this turned-about message was carved into one of Winchester Cathedral's exterior walls.

An unfinished Serbian Orthodox church with 1,389 golden crosses planned to represent the Battle of Kosovo.

See gorgeous frescoes at this modest Byzantine place of worship.

Visit a church sculpted from hardened lava.

For more than half a millennia, this automaton has rung an hourly bell.

This 19th-century performer's gravestone identifies her as "the smallest woman ever in this Kingdom."

Does being buried standing up help you get into heaven faster?

This cathedral's stained-glass patchwork of psychedelic colors and shapes was put in place long before the swinging 60s.

A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.

The largest Christian church in the country is a complicated symbol of Spanish colonialism.

Hundreds of years ago, this lion-shaped door knocker could help a person accused of a crime find temporary safe haven in Durham Cathedral.

Amidst political unrest, this Roman Catholic Cathedral has helped organize peace talks.