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Two elaborately decorated "catacomb saints" are displayed on either side of the altar in a small church in Germany.

This one-of-a-kind shrine is dedicated to a girl who was too beautiful for her own good.

A tribute to the builder(s) of Bitcoin.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

Underneath the well-known Lindenhof hides a secret cellar documenting Zurich's early history.

Feast your eyes on the centuries-old statues of the judges of hell.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

This institution has been serving up some of the best pancakes in the Netherlands for over a century.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

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

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

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

The relics are stored in a silver reliquary, where they can be seen through glass.

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

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.