These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

A defensive structure built during the Hundred Years War has remained useful in one way or another for nearly 700 years.

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

Today, Kent's medieval monarchs hold court on a busy pedestrian thoroughfare—or at least their statues do.

Ramsgate’s Royal Harbour has the unique status of being the only Royal Harbour in the United Kingdom.

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

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

See one of the earliest depictions of a Christian ceremony – with a woman at the center!

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

This one-of-a-kind Roman arch is not actually dedicated to the god Janus.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

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

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

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

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

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

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

Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.