Churches

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A beautiful chapel on the hills of the Oltrepò Pavese claims to house the tomb of King Edward II of England.

Historical etchings such as “Miserable, wild, distracted 1350" and “The Archdeacon is an ass.”

The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.