The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

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

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

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

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.

A steep and winding road in the Yorkshire Dales passes by these deep natural potholes.

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."