Places remcrae Wants to Go

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

Three million year old fossils are exposed for all to see on this Icelandic shore.

The relics are stored in a silver reliquary, where they can be seen through glass.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

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

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.