This detailed miniature model covers all aspects of life in a small Mexican village.

This church devoted to Mexico's "dead saint" is a festive celebration of a formerly hidden religious figure.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.