Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

This ancient city—home to nine civilizations—is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

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

The remains of an abandoned air force hospital located on a redeveloped Air Force base.

Peek into the world of those creating the beautiful, delicate paper parasols found all over the globe.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

These little castles each held thousands of pigeons.

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

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

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.