Seattle, Washington
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.
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Seattle, Washington
This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.
Seattle, Washington
A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.
Seattle, Washington
Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.
Seattle, Washington
A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.
Seattle, Washington
A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
New York, New York
Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.
Bronx, New York
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
New York, New York
This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.
New York, New York
A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.
New York, New York
Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.
Paris, France
The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Blatce, Czechia
Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.
Prague, Czechia
A crucified and bearded female saint.
Křtiny, Czechia
Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.
Prague, Czechia
A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.
Brno, Czechia
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
Manětín, Czechia
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.