Georgia
Gergeti Trinity Church
Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.
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Georgia
Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.
Arras, France
An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.
Y, France
This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.
Amiens, France
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
Kittery, Maine
Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.
Hanover, New Hampshire
The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.
Lourdes, France
Beneath the city of Lourdes, France is a massive, concrete church.
Kyiv, Ukraine
One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.
Kyiv, Ukraine
340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The deepest metro station in the world.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
Lviv, Ukraine
Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.
Venice, Italy
The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.
Larnaca, Cyprus
Ancient stone dildos and other odd pieces of medical history are displayed at this quirky Cyprus gem.
Hrodna, Belarus
This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The medieval prince founded the first library in Ukraine at Saint Sophia's Cathedral where he was interred.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The largest collection of death masks in Ukraine.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Exeter, Rhode Island
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
Nazca, Peru
Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.
Tatev, Armenia
Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.