Monselice, Italy
Church of San Giorgio
This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.
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Monselice, Italy
This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.
Pavia, Italy
A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...
Denizli Merkez, Turkey
A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Malaysia's first and only glass temple.
Beppu, Japan
Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.
Paris, France
Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.
Catarman, Philippines
A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Riga, Latvia
Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.
Malaga, Spain
Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.
Rome, Italy
This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.
San Fruttuoso, Italy
A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.
Fujinomiya, Japan
Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.
Datong, China
A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.
Salzburg, Austria
The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.
Whittingham, England
This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.