The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

A 15th-century monumental Latin inscription on this house celebrates Lorenzo Manilio's love for Rome.

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

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

Like Mars, but much closer.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

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

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

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

Deep in the forest next to Augsburg are abandoned bunkers and bullet traps from the region's military past.

Hidden in the forest are the crumbling, graffiti-covered remains of the factory where most of Germany's explosives were produced during World War II.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

The highest cold-water geyser in the world.