Places remcrae Wants to Go

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Perfume museum and library.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Some of the saint's blood and bones are said to reside in Dublin.

The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.

Celebrate the end of the Great French Wine Blight with a festival of kissing.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

The corpse bride of Portugal.

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.