Places kattowice Wants to Go

The “Sistine Chapel” of the Middle Ages merges 11th-century science and religion in wondrous hues.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

Tucked away in a small German apartment is an eclectic museum devoted to West African vodun culture.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

A 17th-century doorway in a small Sabine village is a portal into the mysteries of alchemy.

A medieval house with mysterious alchemical inscriptions on its facade

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

A stunning hermit's shrine on a steep rocky spur in Northern Italy.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.