Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

This 16-foot, intricately detailed model of the Gearing-class destroyer has been called the most detailed model ship ever built.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.