A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.