Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

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

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

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

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

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

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

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

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

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

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.