Rome, Italy
The Sacconi Rossi Crypt
A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.
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Rome, Italy
A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.
Boston, Massachusetts
A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.
Plouha, France
Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.
Tallinn, Estonia
Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.
Lübeck, Germany
Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.
Hrastovlje, Slovenia
The walls of this medieval church are covered with perfectly preserved frescos, including a pristine example of the Dance of Death.
Stratford, Connecticut
The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.
Lakewood, Colorado
At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.
Clinton, Massachusetts
This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.
San Francisco, California
A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.
San Francisco, California
Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.
San Francisco, California
The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.
East Palo Alto, California
An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.
Berlin, Germany
At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.
Salem, Massachusetts
Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.
Berlin, Germany
A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.
Rome, Italy
This statue is the only female representation of Rome's "talking statues."
Osaka, Japan
A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.
Kyoto, Japan
This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.
Kyoto, Japan
Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.
Tokyo, Japan
The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.
Fujinomiya, Japan
Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.
Kyoto, Japan
This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.