American soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

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

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

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