Places ickaimp Wants to Go

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

The middle finger of modernity.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

18th century underground pilgrimage site, dedicated to a Saint that did something...

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.