An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

The world's first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.