Places kattowice Wants to Go

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The United Kingdom's smallest working cathedral also serves as a quaint bed and breakfast.

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

This amusement park brings a little slice of England to the heart of Kyushu.