Places Sahakiel Wants to Go

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

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

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

An unsanctioned shrine that sprung up outside the late singer's home is causing a stir in London's Highgate neighborhood.

The first modernist church in Europe.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

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

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.