Lima, Peru
Huaca Pucllana
This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.
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Lima, Peru
This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.
Lima, Peru
Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Cherrapunjee, India
Known as the wettest place on earth.
Lala Khal, Bangladesh
A beautiful stretch of Bangladeshi river known for its high quality sand is possibly more remarkable for its color changing water.
Huautla de Jiménez, Mexico
Southern Mexico under the influence of mushrooms, ceremony and celebrity.
San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Mexico
This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.
Riga, Latvia
A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.
Cherrapunjee, India
Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.
Mayang, India
The Indian capital of black magic and witchcraft.
Kaunas, Lithuania
Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.
Rapa, Poland
A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.
Lima, Peru
A market for witches is hidden within a train station.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Brooklyn, New York
A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Genoa, Italy
A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Kaukapakapa, New Zealand
One of the world's largest Tesla coils.
Vatican City
If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.