Churches

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

Home of controversial poet priest who penned the words for the Austrian national anthem used in the 1930s.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.