Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

A shrine dedicated to a 10th-century samurai emperor, whose head is not buried on site (contrary to popular belief).

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

Believed to hold the remains of Japan's most infamous fox spirit, this stone is said to kill those who dare approach.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare to enter.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The largest collection of hair jewelry in Europe reminds you how creepy 19th-century love was.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

A bench and a bridge pay tribute to Birmingham's favorite heavy metal band.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.