The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This lone tower casts an outstretched shadow over the site of a once-wealthy Knights Templar preceptory.

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.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

This 19th-century performer's gravestone identifies her as "the smallest woman ever in this Kingdom."

These centuries old gardens have been restored to their 17th century condition.

This ancient Bedfordshire church was abandoned when the village's population slowly began migrating to new towns.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.