A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

Visit the ancient, mysterious Roman catacombs ... in the Netherlands.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

Inspired by "The Starry Night" this Dutch bike path turns into a glowing work of art each night.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.