Churches

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

A gothic church dedicated to the love of wine.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

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