Rome, Italy
Papal Hearts at Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi
This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.
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Rome, Italy
This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.
Rome, Italy
A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.
Rome, Italy
The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.
Rome, Italy
The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Siena, Italy
Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.
Siena, Italy
A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
Florence, Italy
Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Florence, Italy
An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.
Florence, Italy
This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.
Florence, Italy
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Provo, Utah
In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.
Logan, Utah
Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.
Moab, Utah
A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.
Wendover, Utah
A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.
Payson, Utah
A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.
North Ogden, Utah
Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.
Moab, Utah
Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.
Huntsville, Utah
Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.
Box Elder County, Utah
This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.