Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

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

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

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

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.