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.

This giant crucifix is like U2's Joshua Tree for Swedish death metal fans.

A king's bloodstained shirt is among the gruesome collection of artifacts displayed below Stockholm's Royal Palace.

Located in an old church, this brewery produces a different kind of holy water.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

This 21st century cabinet of curiosities includes dinosaur bones, moon rocks, film memorabilia, and more.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

The intricate geometry inside this Baroque-style dome was designed to create "terror of the human soul."

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

The eerie ruins of this feudal fortress witnessed the execution of 60 conspirators in 1387.

This lesser-known leaning tower is all that remains of the medieval castle of Vernazzano.

Nine caves filled with recently-discovered archaeological finds under the houses and the streets of the most ancient district of an old town.