Florence, Italy
The Relic of St. Antoninus
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
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Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
San Gimignano, Italy
These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.
Siena, Italy
A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
Montegabbione (TR), Italy
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Rome, Italy
A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.
Wuppertal, Germany
This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Eggenburg, Austria
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
Waldsassen, Germany
Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Niš, Serbia
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
Montenegro
A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.
Rome, Italy
Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.
Monte di Cuma, Italy
Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.
Naples, Italy
Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.
Naples, Italy
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."
Brno, Czechia
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
Salzburg, Austria
Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.