Milan, Italy
San Bernardino alle Ossa
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
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Milan, Italy
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Vienna, Austria
A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.
Vienna, Austria
An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.
Vienna, Austria
The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.
Vienna, Austria
This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.
Vienna, Austria
Op-art architecture designed for happiness.
Vienna, Austria
This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.
Vienna, Austria
Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.
Vienna, Austria
Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.
Vienna, Austria
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.
Spijkenisse, Netherlands
Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
London, England
A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.
Cookley, England
Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.
Brooklyn, New York
One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.
Keystone, South Dakota
Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.
Prášily, Czechia
A Cold War secret surveillance tower used to spy on radio communications.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
London, England
Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
Moscow, Russia
Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.