A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.