Rome, Italy
The Wax-Encased Remains of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.
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Rome, Italy
The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Rome, Italy
St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Rome, Italy
The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
Rome, Italy
Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.
Bologna, Italy
In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.
Dowth, Ireland
The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.
Paris, France
A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.
Paris, France
Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Ypres, Belgium
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Ghent, Belgium
Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.
Ghent, Belgium
This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.
Beveren, Belgium
This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.
Brussels, Belgium
Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Antwerp, Belgium
An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.
Mexico City, Mexico
Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.
Rome, Italy
Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.
Rome, Italy
The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.