This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?