Places MadMad Wants to Go

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

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

This house is adorned with a serenade macabre from the Counter-Reformation period.

Five painted skeletons are hiding behind a church in this tiny village in the Italian Alps.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The skull of this patron saint is kept in a shrine located in his hometown.