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Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.