Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
The Kelp House
A relic of the region's rich seaweed industry.
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Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
A relic of the region's rich seaweed industry.
Dublin, Ireland
Explore Dublin's laneways full of diverse street art and graffiti.
Dingle, Ireland
A monument to a beloved aquatic folk hero in the Irish town of Dingle.
Dublin, Ireland
Outside an Irish football stadium are murals commemorating history and local heroes.
London, England
Where the dead once lay, art now plays.
Anwoth, Scotland
The ruins of celebrated theologian Samuel Rutherford’s church, featured in a 1970s cult horror film.
Clophill, England
A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Frederikshavn, Denmark
The largest collection of hair jewelry in Europe reminds you how creepy 19th-century love was.
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Madrid, Spain
One of the world's oldest universities houses an incredible collection of anatomical models, mummified body parts, and human bones.
Naples, Italy
The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.
Padua, Italy
The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.
Montreal, Québec
City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.
Conques, France
The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.
Bar-le-Duc, France
Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.
Rome, Italy
This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.
Valence, France
When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.
Budapest, Hungary
The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.
Saint-Denis, France
The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.
Rouen, France
His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.
Bucharest, Romania
The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.
Prague, Czechia
A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.