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An underground unique sacred place in the Kazakh steppe in which Sufism and nomadic tradition merge.

A remote, centuries-old underground mosque with a lunar aesthetic.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

This 6th-century church honors St. Tudno, the patron saint of Llandudno.

This church is considered the largest and most complete Saxon church in England.

This curious gravestone tells the legend of an unknown mariner's grisly murder.

An ancient yew tree and holy well nestle beside a remarkable 13th-century church.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

The oldest church in Mantua was buried for centuries under the facades of other structures.

A hidden bas-relief of a hare on a church main portal that brings good luck to the ones who find it.

It took more than 300 years to build this church, which is home to two sacred vessels believed to hold the blood of Christ.

A medieval tower with a suspended iron cage used as an open-air jail for criminals who were exposed as a warning.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

The seat of the Mantua bishop holds many secrets within its walls.

This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.