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At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The last Tsar of Russia constructed this private church just so he could attend services when visiting his wife's hometown.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

Built on a medieval synagogue, this church has a burial crypt, tunnel system, and Jewish ritual bath hiding deep underneath.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

In the sleepy town of Gozo exists a reproduction of the entire town of Bethlehem.

An 18th-century hunting lodge turned haunted Baroque palace.

See Malta’s history through the recreation of scenes of torture using life-sized mannequins in a former medieval dungeon.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

After 400 years of being closed to the public, this monastery's underground tunnels and secret garden are now a museum.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

This church is named for one of the most dramatic tales in the early Christian church.

For over two centuries, this palace served as a residence for the Holy Roman Inquisition's leaders, a courthouse, and a prison.

The eerie remains of one of Ireland's oldest castles, said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman who brings ill fate.

An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Tiny museum with unusual specimens.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

The other, lesser-known, Sistine Chapel, sits over 500km away from the Vatican City in an Italian port City.

Some say this small Italian church holds a gate to Heaven.

The medieval prince founded the first library in Ukraine at Saint Sophia's Cathedral where he was interred.